I have a controller called Search. A normal url would be the following:

• localhost:44351//Search/ByCity

This would hit my ByCity action within my SearchController.

Now however, a url such as the following example, would also need to hit an action within the SearchController:

• localhost:44351//Search/Pharmacy/ByCity

I need to somehow tell my SearchController, if the url contains "Pharmacy/ByCity", to go to the ByCity action.

I've tried using the routing attribute, but my app still hits my old Pharmacy action instead.

In my RouteConfig, I have this:

public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
    {
        routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");
        routes.MapMvcAttributeRoutes();   
    }

Then, in my SearchController, I have this:

   public virtual ActionResult Pharmacy()
    {
        //this is an existing action, which gets hit, even when I type in "Pharmacy/ByCity", which is not what I want to happen.
    }

    [Route("Pharmacy/ByCity")]
    public virtual ActionResult ByCity()
    {
        //this never gets hit
    }

Any idea how to have a url containing "Pharmacy/ByCity" to hit my "ByCity" action, rather than "Pharmacy"?

Thanks

CodePudding user response：

Routes are accessed depending on their Order in the routing table.

For conventional routing (RouteConfig.cs), you could add your specific route before the default route.

1. Remove your Route[] attributes in the controller
2. Use the code below for RouteConfig

public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
{
   routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");

   // add your specific route, before the default route
   routes.MapRoute(
      name: "SearchByCity", // random name
      url: "Search/Pharmacy/ByCity",
      defaults: new { controller = "Search", action = "ByCity" }
   );
   
   // this is the default route
   routes.MapRoute(
      name: "Default",
      url: "{controller}/{action}/{id}",
      defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
   );
}

If you want to use Attribute Route, follow steps below.

1. Remove the default route in RouteConfig.

public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
{
   routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");
   routes.MapMvcAttributeRoutes();
}

2. Then use the controller below, we used RoutePrefix for the controller, and Route for the actions.

[RoutePrefix("Search")]
public class SearchController : Controller
{
   [Route("Pharmacy")]
   public virtual ActionResult Pharmacy()
   {
      return View("index");
   }

   [Route("Pharmacy/ByCity")]
   public virtual ActionResult ByCity()
   {
      return View("index");
   }
}

CodePudding user response：

It is possible to achieve with the conventional route by set up like below:

routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");

routes.MapRoute(
    name: "Pharmacy",
    url: "{clientname}/{controller}/Pharmacy/{action}",
    defaults: new { controller = "search" }
);

routes.MapRoute(
    name: "Search",
    url: "{clientname}/{controller}/{action}",
    defaults: new { controller = "search", action = "Index" }
);          

routes.MapRoute(
    name: "Default",
    url: "{controller}/{action}/{id}",
    defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
);