Appears there is a controller conflict with the Route attribute

Question

User-973886032 posted

hi guys

I added  [Route("{Category"}] attribute to my Home Controller, so I can have products like this 

www.xyz.com/TShirts 

www.xyz.com/mugs 

which works fine, and other controllers too work fine, but I noticed that my users controller is hijacked, as I put a breakpoint and noticed www.xyz.com/Users

goes to the breakpoint on the home page. here is my code

  [Route("/{C}")]
        public async Task<IActionResult> Product(String C)
        {

            return View(await _context.Departments_SubCategory.Include(c => c.Departments_Category)
               .Where(d => d.Departments_Category.Category_Name.Contains(C))
                 .Where(r => r.IsEnabled == true).Select(u => new Departments_SubCategory
                 {
                     CategoryID = u.CategoryID,
                     SubCategory_Name = u.SubCategory_Name,
                     EntryDate = u.EntryDate,
                     Description_Detailed = u.Description_Detailed,
                     Description_Short = u.Description_Short,
                     ProductCount = u.Products.Count()

                 }).ToListAsync());

And the users controller has no code as of yet, as I cant seem to get it hit. But when I removed the route attribute on the HOme controller, it works

   public async Task<IActionResult> Index()
        {
return View()
}

Answer 1

User475983607 posted

I added  [Route("{Category"}] attribute to my Home Controller, so I can have products like this 

www.xyz.com/TShirts 

www.xyz.com/mugs 

which works fine, and other controllers too work fine, but I noticed that my users controller is hijacked, as I put a breakpoint and noticed www.xyz.com/Users

Correct, www.xyz.com/Users matches the route attribute.  BTW, your route attribute has an syntax error.

It is difficult to provide assistance without understanding your routing requirements,  As shown above the approach does not make sense.

Answer 2

User-973886032 posted

Correct, www.xyz.com/Users matches the route attribute.  BTW, your route attribute has an syntax error.

It is difficult to provide assistance without understanding your routing requirements,  As shown above the approach does not make sense.

I found out I was using the wrong route attribute, as I should not have used /

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/mvc/controllers/routing?view=aspnetcore-2.2

Attribute routing
Attribute routing uses a set of attributes to map actions directly to route templates. In the following example, app.UseMvc(); is used in the Configure method and no route is passed. The HomeController will match a set of URLs similar to what the default route {controller=Home}/{action=Index}/{id?} would match:

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public class HomeController : Controller
{
   [Route("")]
   [Route("Home")]
   [Route("Home/Index")]
   public IActionResult Index()
   {
      return View();
   }
   [Route("Home/About")]
   public IActionResult About()
   {
      return View();
   }
   [Route("Home/Contact")]
   public IActionResult Contact()
   {
      return View();
   }
}