Need some ASP.NET MVC Routing Help

Question

Hello, I've started with ASP.NET MVC recently, reading blogs, tutorials, trying some routes, etc. Now, i've stumbled on a issue where i need some help.

Basically, i have an URL like /products.aspx?categoryid=foo&productid=bar

Most tutorials/examples propose to map this to something like: /products/category/foo/bar where "products" is the controller, "category" is the action, etc.

But i need to map it to /products/foo/bar. (without "category")

Is it possible? Am i missing something? Help will be highly appreciated. Thank you advance :)

P.S. Sorry for my bad English.

Answer 1

(your English is just fine, no need to apologize!)

You can define a route like this:

routes.MapRoute("productsByCategory", "products/{category}/{productid}",
  new { controller="products", action="findByCategory" })

This will match

products/foo/bar and call an action looking like this:

public class ProductsController : Controller
{
   ...

   public ActionResult FindByCategory(string category, string productid)
   {
          ....
   }
}

does this help?

Answer 2

You also might consider making a Controller to test out your custom routes...

Check out Stephen Walther's blog entry about it.