RouteBuilder

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JonEHolland — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 04:41:04 GMT

RouteBuilder is a small HttpModule that allows ASP.NET MVC Routing rules to be declared in Web.Config instead of
in global.asax. Note that this version of the HttpModule is designed for the ASP.NET MVC CTP release, and may not work with newer versions of
ASP.NET MVC.

Installation instructions are provided in the readme file in the release.

More information at my blog:

http://codeEleven.blogspot.com

UPDATE: This is now out of date with the current ASP.NET MVC Release and will not work.

NEW POST: Validation?

kujotx — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:02:52 GMT

Jonathan,

Fantastic work.

I am surprised that I wasn't able to find anyone who suggested adding Routes.Validation support yet. Is that in the works?

Looking forward to seeing your hard work absorbed into the MVC project. This should have been thought of sooner!

NEW POST: Configuration under IIS7

sodablue — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:54:29 GMT

In addition to adding a line to the httpModules section of system.web, you also have to add a line to modules under system.webServer.

something like this:

<system.webServer>
<modules>
<add name="RouteTable" type="Routes.HttpModule.RouteBuilder,RouteBuilder.HttpModule, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null" />
</modules>
</system.webServer>

NEW POST: Interesting thing with simple Urls

sodablue — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 03:14:03 GMT

Ok, so I've got the typical routes added, and they're working great...

<addRoute Url="[controller]/[action]/[id]" Defaults="action=Index,id=null"/>
<addRoute Url="Default.aspx" Defaults="controller=Home,action=Index,id=null" />

But I want to have a special url. My real example is /Login which uses the Security controller, Login action. But the same problem can be demonstrated more simply, like this:
<addRoute Url="MyHome" Defaults="controller=Home,action=Index,id=null" />

Upon trying to go to /MyHome, it blows up with an error about the controller not being defined.

But here is where it becomes interesting. If I reverse the order of items in my configuration, such that [controller]/[action]/[id] is listed last, then it works.

Just kind of strange. The code I commented out in my global.asax added the routes like that with the default [controller] one being listed first. I stepped through the RouteBuilder and it seemed to add them in the same order

NEW POST: More Routetables

Rader — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 05:25:32 GMT

Yes, I know what you mean. It's a real solution when actions have "postId" as params, but not "id".

But, what I want is these two rules can work well together.

rule=controller/action/postId
rule=controller/action/id

With Asp.net extension v3.6, I can define those two rules at the same time, but the latter will not be used.

Else, the params "postId" in actions should all be changed to "id". I can do that, but are there other solutions?

NEW POST: More Routetables

JonEHolland — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:55:24 GMT

Hi Rader,

You need to define a new action rule for PostId to match your method signature. For example:

controller/action/postId

As I have said on my blog, a large application will have many rules defined, which is why RouteBuilder moves the rules to a configuration file instead of the code.

If you want to allow nulls, then use a nullable type in your method signature, such as:

public void Detail (int? postId)

NEW POST: More Routetables

Rader — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 02:30:29 GMT

I get a problem when I work with the Url Routing from the new mvc framework.

After adding a rule into the routing table, for example "/controller/action/id", I define an action named "Detail" in "BlogController". And the action has a param "postId"(not "id"), like this:

public void Detail(int postId)
{
//get post by id and render the detail view
}

Then use this url "/blog/detail/3" to fire the action. I get an error message which says that method "detail" needs an param "id" and it cant be null. I think the Url Routing havn't find an action matched. The name of the action-param, here is 'postId", should be the same with the one defined in the RouteTable, here is "id"....

I don't know why the rule should be so strict.
Can this RouteBuilder help me?

NEW POST: More Routetables

HFeijt — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 10:57:24 GMT

It woold be nice to have more than one routetable defined, and to be possible to switch between routetables. It would be handy if you want to localize your routing. At the moment I define language-depended routing in the global.asax

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JonEHolland — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 02:17:01 GMT

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JonEHolland — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 02:16:47 GMT

Source code checked in

JonEHolland — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 02:05:12 GMT

Initial Upload of Source

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JonEHolland — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:40:10 GMT

CREATED RELEASE: 1.0 Release (Dec 13, 2007)

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:36:00 GMT

This is the initial release of RouteBuilder.