ASP MVC - Access Controller/Action using parameter name - asp.net-mvc

I am using ASP MVC4 and I would like to know if I can open a specific page as follow:
www.domain.com?Area=area1&controller=myController&Action=MyAction
instead of
www.domain.com/area1/mycontroller/MyAction
It works for me when I use the area as parameter but when I use the controller and action too as query parameters, it fails. Is there a way to make it work as Url parameters?

By default, the built-in routing ignores query string values (it does not add them to the RouteData.Values dictionary). However, there is no reason why you can't extend routing to consider them.
public class QueryStringRoute : RouteBase
{
public RouteData GetRouteData(HttpContextBase httpContext)
{
var path = httpContext.Request.Path;
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(path))
{
// Don't handle URLs that have a path /controller/action
return null;
}
var queryString = httpContext.Request.QueryString;
if (!queryString.HasKeys())
{
// Don't handle the route if there is no query string.
return null;
}
if (!queryString.AllKeys.Contains("controller") && !queryString.AllKeys.Contains("action"))
{
// Don't handle the case where controller and action are missing.
return null;
}
var controller = queryString["controller"];
var action = queryString["action"];
var area = queryString["area"];
var routeData = new RouteData(this, new MvcRouteHandler());
routeData.Values["controller"] = controller;
routeData.Values["action"] = action;
routeData.DataTokens["area"] = area;
return routeData;
}
public VirtualPathData GetVirtualPath(RequestContext requestContext, RouteValueDictionary values)
{
// NOTE: MVC automatically tacks unrecognized route values onto
// the query string. So, it is sufficient to just call your
// ActionLink normally and returning an empty string for the URL
// will send it to mysite.com/?controller=foo&action=bar
return new VirtualPathData(this, string.Empty);
}
}
Usage
public class RouteConfig
{
public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
{
routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");
// Add the query string route
routes.Add(new new QueryStringRoute());
}
}
I haven't tested this, so it may need some tweaking to get it to work right, but this is how you can do it.
Do note however, this is bad for SEO and also you will need to add additional code to handle parameters other than controller, action, and area (such as id). You could pass values to match into the route constructor, and then register the QueryStringRoute class with different parameters in order to overcome this problem.

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Single MVC Web Application with multiple URLs redirecting to diferent Controllers [duplicate]

Is it possible to have an ASP.NET MVC route that uses subdomain information to determine its route? For example:
user1.domain.example goes to one place
user2.domain.example goes to another?
Or, can I make it so both of these go to the same controller/action with a username parameter?
You can do it by creating a new route and adding it to the routes collection in RegisterRoutes in your global.asax. Below is a very simple example of a custom Route:
public class ExampleRoute : RouteBase
{
public override RouteData GetRouteData(HttpContextBase httpContext)
{
var url = httpContext.Request.Headers["HOST"];
var index = url.IndexOf(".");
if (index < 0)
return null;
var subDomain = url.Substring(0, index);
if (subDomain == "user1")
{
var routeData = new RouteData(this, new MvcRouteHandler());
routeData.Values.Add("controller", "User1"); //Goes to the User1Controller class
routeData.Values.Add("action", "Index"); //Goes to the Index action on the User1Controller
return routeData;
}
if (subDomain == "user2")
{
var routeData = new RouteData(this, new MvcRouteHandler());
routeData.Values.Add("controller", "User2"); //Goes to the User2Controller class
routeData.Values.Add("action", "Index"); //Goes to the Index action on the User2Controller
return routeData;
}
return null;
}
public override VirtualPathData GetVirtualPath(RequestContext requestContext, RouteValueDictionary values)
{
//Implement your formating Url formating here
return null;
}
}
To capture the subdomain while retaining the standard MVC5 routing features, use the following SubdomainRoute class derived from Route.
Additionally, SubdomainRoute allows the subdomain optionally to be specified as a query parameter, making sub.example.com/foo/bar and example.com/foo/bar?subdomain=sub equivalent. This allows you to test before the DNS subdomains are configured. The query parameter (when in use) is propagated through new links generated by Url.Action, etc.
The query parameter also enables local debugging with Visual Studio 2013 without having to configure with netsh or run as Administrator. By default, IIS Express only binds to localhost when non-elevated; it won't bind to synonymous hostnames like sub.localtest.me.
class SubdomainRoute : Route
{
public SubdomainRoute(string url) : base(url, new MvcRouteHandler()) {}
public override RouteData GetRouteData(HttpContextBase httpContext)
{
var routeData = base.GetRouteData(httpContext);
if (routeData == null) return null; // Only look at the subdomain if this route matches in the first place.
string subdomain = httpContext.Request.Params["subdomain"]; // A subdomain specified as a query parameter takes precedence over the hostname.
if (subdomain == null) {
string host = httpContext.Request.Headers["Host"];
int index = host.IndexOf('.');
if (index >= 0)
subdomain = host.Substring(0, index);
}
if (subdomain != null)
routeData.Values["subdomain"] = subdomain;
return routeData;
}
public override VirtualPathData GetVirtualPath(RequestContext requestContext, RouteValueDictionary values)
{
object subdomainParam = requestContext.HttpContext.Request.Params["subdomain"];
if (subdomainParam != null)
values["subdomain"] = subdomainParam;
return base.GetVirtualPath(requestContext, values);
}
}
For convenience, call the following MapSubdomainRoute method from your RegisterRoutes method just as you would plain old MapRoute:
static void MapSubdomainRoute(this RouteCollection routes, string name, string url, object defaults = null, object constraints = null)
{
routes.Add(name, new SubdomainRoute(url) {
Defaults = new RouteValueDictionary(defaults),
Constraints = new RouteValueDictionary(constraints),
DataTokens = new RouteValueDictionary()
});
}
Finally, to conveniently access the subdomain (either from a true subdomain or a query parameter), it is helpful to create a Controller base class with this Subdomain property:
protected string Subdomain
{
get { return (string)Request.RequestContext.RouteData.Values["subdomain"]; }
}
This is not my work, but I had to add it on this answer.
Here is a great solution to this problem. Maartin Balliauw wrote code that creates a DomainRoute class that can be used very similarly to the normal routing.
http://blog.maartenballiauw.be/post/2009/05/20/ASPNET-MVC-Domain-Routing.aspx
Sample use would be like this...
routes.Add("DomainRoute", new DomainRoute(
"{customer}.example.com", // Domain with parameters
"{action}/{id}", // URL with parameters
new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = "" } // Parameter defaults
))
;
To capture the subdomain when using Web API, override the Action Selector to inject a subdomain query parameter. Then use the subdomain query parameter in your controllers' actions like this:
public string Get(string id, string subdomain)
This approach makes debugging convenient since you can specify the query parameter by hand when using localhost instead of the actual host name (see the standard MVC5 routing answer for details). This is the code for Action Selector:
class SubdomainActionSelector : IHttpActionSelector
{
private readonly IHttpActionSelector defaultSelector;
public SubdomainActionSelector(IHttpActionSelector defaultSelector)
{
this.defaultSelector = defaultSelector;
}
public ILookup<string, HttpActionDescriptor> GetActionMapping(HttpControllerDescriptor controllerDescriptor)
{
return defaultSelector.GetActionMapping(controllerDescriptor);
}
public HttpActionDescriptor SelectAction(HttpControllerContext controllerContext)
{
var routeValues = controllerContext.Request.GetRouteData().Values;
if (!routeValues.ContainsKey("subdomain")) {
string host = controllerContext.Request.Headers.Host;
int index = host.IndexOf('.');
if (index >= 0)
controllerContext.Request.GetRouteData().Values.Add("subdomain", host.Substring(0, index));
}
return defaultSelector.SelectAction(controllerContext);
}
}
Replace the default Action Selector by adding this to WebApiConfig.Register:
config.Services.Replace(typeof(IHttpActionSelector), new SubdomainActionSelector(config.Services.GetActionSelector()));
Yes but you have to create your own route handler.
Typically the route is not aware of the domain because the application could be deployed to any domain and the route would not care one way or another. But in your case you want to base the controller and action off the domain, so you will have to create a custom route that is aware of the domain.
I created library for subdomain routing which you can create such a route. It is working currently for a .NET Core 1.1 and .NET Framework 4.6.1 but will be updated in near future. This is how is it working:
1) Map subdomain route in Startup.cs
public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app, IHostingEnvironment env, ILoggerFactory loggerFactory)
{
var hostnames = new[] { "localhost:54575" };
app.UseMvc(routes =>
{
routes.MapSubdomainRoute(
hostnames,
"SubdomainRoute",
"{username}",
"{controller}/{action}",
new { controller = "Home", action = "Index" });
)};
2) Controllers/HomeController.cs
public IActionResult Index(string username)
{
//code
}
3) That lib will also allow you to generate URLs and forms. Code:
#Html.ActionLink("User home", "Index", "Home" new { username = "user1" }, null)
Will generate User home
Generated URL will also depend on current host location and schema.
You can also use html helpers for BeginForm and UrlHelper. If you like you can also use new feature called tag helpers (FormTagHelper, AnchorTagHelper)
That lib does not have any documentation yet, but there are some tests and samples project so feel free to explore it.
In ASP.NET Core, the host is available via Request.Host.Host. If you want to allow overriding the host via a query parameter, first check Request.Query.
To cause a host query parameter to propagate into to new route-based URLs, add this code to the app.UseMvc route configuration:
routes.Routes.Add(new HostPropagationRouter(routes.DefaultHandler));
And define HostPropagationRouter like this:
/// <summary>
/// A router that propagates the request's "host" query parameter to the response.
/// </summary>
class HostPropagationRouter : IRouter
{
readonly IRouter router;
public HostPropagationRouter(IRouter router)
{
this.router = router;
}
public VirtualPathData GetVirtualPath(VirtualPathContext context)
{
if (context.HttpContext.Request.Query.TryGetValue("host", out var host))
context.Values["host"] = host;
return router.GetVirtualPath(context);
}
public Task RouteAsync(RouteContext context) => router.RouteAsync(context);
}
After defining a new Route handler that would look at the host passed in the URL, you can go with the idea of a base Controller that is aware of the Site it’s being accessed for. It looks like this:
public abstract class SiteController : Controller {
ISiteProvider _siteProvider;
public SiteController() {
_siteProvider = new SiteProvider();
}
public SiteController(ISiteProvider siteProvider) {
_siteProvider = siteProvider;
}
protected override void Initialize(RequestContext requestContext) {
string[] host = requestContext.HttpContext.Request.Headers["Host"].Split(':');
_siteProvider.Initialise(host[0]);
base.Initialize(requestContext);
}
protected override void OnActionExecuting(ActionExecutingContext filterContext) {
ViewData["Site"] = Site;
base.OnActionExecuting(filterContext);
}
public Site Site {
get {
return _siteProvider.GetCurrentSite();
}
}
}
ISiteProvider is a simple interface:
public interface ISiteProvider {
void Initialise(string host);
Site GetCurrentSite();
}
I refer you go to Luke Sampson Blog
If you are looking at giving MultiTenancy capabilities to your project with different domains/subdomains for each tenant, you should have a look at SaasKit:
https://github.com/saaskit/saaskit
Code examples can be seen here: http://benfoster.io/blog/saaskit-multi-tenancy-made-easy
Some examples using ASP.NET core: http://andrewlock.net/forking-the-pipeline-adding-tenant-specific-files-with-saaskit-in-asp-net-core/
EDIT:
If you do no want to use SaasKit in your ASP.NET core project you can have a look at Maarten's implementation of domain routing for MVC6: https://blog.maartenballiauw.be/post/2015/02/17/domain-routing-and-resolving-current-tenant-with-aspnet-mvc-6-aspnet-5.html
However those Gists are not maintained and need to be tweaked to work with the latest release of ASP.NET core.
Direct link to the code: https://gist.github.com/maartenba/77ca6f9cfef50efa96ec#file-domaintemplateroutebuilderextensions-cs
Few month ago I have developed an attribute that restricts methods or controllers to specific domains.
It is quite easy to use:
[IsDomain("localhost","example.com","www.example.com","*.t1.example.com")]
[HttpGet("RestrictedByHost")]
public IActionResult Test(){}
You can also apply it directly on a controller.
public class IsDomainAttribute : Attribute, Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Filters.IAuthorizationFilter
{
public IsDomainAttribute(params string[] domains)
{
Domains = domains;
}
public string[] Domains { get; }
public void OnAuthorization(AuthorizationFilterContext context)
{
var host = context.HttpContext.Request.Host.Host;
if (Domains.Contains(host))
return;
if (Domains.Any(d => d.EndsWith("*"))
&& Domains.Any(d => host.StartsWith(d.Substring(0, d.Length - 1))))
return;
if (Domains.Any(d => d.StartsWith("*"))
&& Domains.Any(d => host.EndsWith(d.Substring(1))))
return;
context.Result = new Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.NotFoundResult();//.ChallengeResult
}
}
Restriction:
you may not be able to have two same routes on different methods with different filters
I mean the following may throw an exception for duplicate route:
[IsDomain("test1.example.com")]
[HttpGet("/Test")]
public IActionResult Test1(){}
[IsDomain("test2.example.com")]
[HttpGet("/Test")]
public IActionResult Test2(){}

mvc custom route configuration

Suppose that we want to transform an old version of asp.net web forms into mvc architecture.
But some users have bookmarked our urls or they have link it on other sites.
Now we don't want to loose that urls.instead we want to create a custom route that manages the old-typed urls.
This class gets the old url from user and creates a new route and redirects the user to the new page.
This is my custom route class:
public class LegacyRoute:RouteBase
{
private string[] urls;
public LegacyRoute(params string[] targetUrls)
{
urls = targetUrls;
}
public override RouteData GetRouteData(HttpContextBase httpContext)
{
RouteData result = null;
string requestedURL =
httpContext.Request.AppRelativeCurrentExecutionFilePath;
if (urls.Contains(requestedURL,StringComparer.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
{
result = new RouteData(this, new MvcRouteHandler());
result.Values.Add("controller", "Legacy");
result.Values.Add("action", "GetLegacyUrl");
result.Values.Add("legacyUrl", requestedURL);
}
return result;
}
public override VirtualPathData GetVirtualPath(RequestContext requestContext, RouteValueDictionary values)
{
return null;
}
}
and this is my RegisterRoutes function:
public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
{
// routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");
routes.Add(new LegacyRoute("~/articles/windows_3.1_Overview.html", "~/old/.NET_1.0_Class_Library"));
routes.MapRoute(null, "{controller}/{action}/{id}", new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional });
}
I have also created "Legacy" controller and "GetLegacyUrl" action.
But when I run the website and type
"localhost:14786/articles/windows_3.1_Overview.html"
in my browser I get the 404 Not Found error.
Where is the problem? Why I get this error?
I solved this problem (in Restful Routing) by creating a global attribute that looks at the route and then executes a redirect if it realizes the route is a "redirect route". In your case it would be a LegacyRoute.
public class RedirectFilterAttribute : ActionFilterAttribute
{
public override void OnActionExecuting(ActionExecutingContext filterContext)
{
if (filterContext.IsChildAction)
return;
var redirect = filterContext.RouteData.Route as RedirectRoute;
if (redirect != null)
{
var helper = new UrlHelper(filterContext.RequestContext);
var values = new RouteValueDictionary(filterContext.RequestContext.RouteData.Values);
var merged = new RouteValueDictionary(redirect.DataTokens["new_path"] as RouteValueDictionary);
// keep the values we specified, and add the other routeValues
// that we we didn't have overrides for.
foreach (var key in values.Keys.Where(key => !merged.ContainsKey(key)))
merged.Add(key, filterContext.RouteData.Values[key]);
var url = helper.RouteUrl(filterContext.RouteData.Values);
filterContext.Result = new RedirectResult(url, redirect.IsPermanent);
}
}
}
I know this is like a month old, but in your post, you did not mention the view. What view do you expect the user to arrive at? What is the view that the controller is returning as a result of GetLegacyUrl? If there is view being retured by GetLegacyUrl, then you will not get a 404. The original code you posted is fine.

Can route values be bound to values other than components of the URL?

Is there a way in ASP.NET MVC 4 to bind route values from sources other than a placeholder in a route URL: a header or post data for example? Or are they intrinsically coupled to the URL?
Specifically, I was interested in overriding the action route value with a value from a posted form field. That way, you could easily have different submit buttons on a page that invoked different actions on the controller by giving each a name of action and a value of the action name.
I've tried setting the RouteData.Values in an HttpModule but that appears to be too early in the pipeline to override the action.
HttpModule is indeed too early for this, and is actually not needed. You can rely on the regular MVC route-handling mechanism and simply provide it with your own RouteValues extracted from the HTTP request.
For example:
public class MyHeadersBasedRoute : RouteBase
{
public const string HEADER_CONTROLLER_KEY = "X-REQUESTED-CONTROLLER";
public const string HEADER_ACTION_KEY = "X-REQUESTED-ACTION";
public override RouteData GetRouteData(HttpContextBase httpContext)
{
var requestedController = httpContext.Request.Headers[HEADER_CONTROLLER_KEY];
var requestedAction = httpContext.Request.Headers[HEADER_ACTION_KEY];
if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(requestedController) || String.IsNullOrEmpty(requestedAction))
return null;
var ret = new RouteData(this, new MvcRouteHandler());
ret.Values.Add("controller", requestedController);
ret.Values.Add("action", requestedAction);
// add any extra parameter from request, for example:
ret.Values.Add("id", httpContext.Request.Form["id"]);
return ret;
}
public override VirtualPathData GetVirtualPath(RequestContext requestContext, RouteValueDictionary values)
{
return null;
}
}
Then just register it in your global.asax:
RouteTable.Routes.Add(new MyHeadersBasedRoute());

How to simulate Server.Transfer in ASP.NET MVC?

In ASP.NET MVC you can return a redirect ActionResult quite easily:
return RedirectToAction("Index");
or
return RedirectToRoute(new { controller = "home", version = Math.Random() * 10 });
This will actually give an HTTP redirect, which is normally fine. However, when using Google Analytics this causes big issues because the original referrer is lost, so Google doesn't know where you came from. This loses useful information such as any search engine terms.
As a side note, this method has the advantage of removing any parameters that may have come from campaigns but still allows me to capture them server side. Leaving them in the query string leads to people bookmarking or twitter or blog a link that they shouldn't. I've seen this several times where people have twittered links to our site containing campaign IDs.
Anyway, I am writing a 'gateway' controller for all incoming visits to the site which I may redirect to different places or alternative versions.
For now I care more about Google for now (than accidental bookmarking), and I want to be able to send someone who visits / to the page that they would get if they went to /home/7, which is version 7 of a homepage.
Like I said before if I do this I lose the ability for google to analyse the referrer:
return RedirectToAction(new { controller = "home", version = 7 });
What I really want is a
return ServerTransferAction(new { controller = "home", version = 7 });
which will get me that view without a client side redirect.
I don't think such a thing exists, though.
Currently the best thing I can come up with is to duplicate the whole controller logic for HomeController.Index(..) in my GatewayController.Index Action. This means I had to move 'Views/Home' into 'Shared' so it was accessible. There must be a better way.
How about a TransferResult class? (based on Stans answer)
/// <summary>
/// Transfers execution to the supplied url.
/// </summary>
public class TransferResult : ActionResult
{
public string Url { get; private set; }
public TransferResult(string url)
{
this.Url = url;
}
public override void ExecuteResult(ControllerContext context)
{
if (context == null)
throw new ArgumentNullException("context");
var httpContext = HttpContext.Current;
// MVC 3 running on IIS 7+
if (HttpRuntime.UsingIntegratedPipeline)
{
httpContext.Server.TransferRequest(this.Url, true);
}
else
{
// Pre MVC 3
httpContext.RewritePath(this.Url, false);
IHttpHandler httpHandler = new MvcHttpHandler();
httpHandler.ProcessRequest(httpContext);
}
}
}
Updated: Now works with MVC3 (using code from Simon's post). It should (haven't been able to test it) also work in MVC2 by looking at whether or not it's running within the integrated pipeline of IIS7+.
For full transparency; In our production environment we've never use the TransferResult directly. We use a TransferToRouteResult which in turn calls executes the TransferResult. Here's what's actually running on my production servers.
public class TransferToRouteResult : ActionResult
{
public string RouteName { get;set; }
public RouteValueDictionary RouteValues { get; set; }
public TransferToRouteResult(RouteValueDictionary routeValues)
: this(null, routeValues)
{
}
public TransferToRouteResult(string routeName, RouteValueDictionary routeValues)
{
this.RouteName = routeName ?? string.Empty;
this.RouteValues = routeValues ?? new RouteValueDictionary();
}
public override void ExecuteResult(ControllerContext context)
{
if (context == null)
throw new ArgumentNullException("context");
var urlHelper = new UrlHelper(context.RequestContext);
var url = urlHelper.RouteUrl(this.RouteName, this.RouteValues);
var actualResult = new TransferResult(url);
actualResult.ExecuteResult(context);
}
}
And if you're using T4MVC (if not... do!) this extension might come in handy.
public static class ControllerExtensions
{
public static TransferToRouteResult TransferToAction(this Controller controller, ActionResult result)
{
return new TransferToRouteResult(result.GetRouteValueDictionary());
}
}
Using this little gem you can do
// in an action method
TransferToAction(MVC.Error.Index());
Edit: Updated to be compatible with ASP.NET MVC 3
Provided you are using IIS7 the following modification seems to work for ASP.NET MVC 3.
Thanks to #nitin and #andy for pointing out the original code didn't work.
Edit 4/11/2011: TempData breaks with Server.TransferRequest as of MVC 3 RTM
Modified the code below to throw an exception - but no other solution at this time.
Here's my modification based upon Markus's modifed version of Stan's original post. I added an additional constructor to take a Route Value dictionary - and renamed it MVCTransferResult to avoid confusion that it might just be a redirect.
I can now do the following for a redirect:
return new MVCTransferResult(new {controller = "home", action = "something" });
My modified class :
public class MVCTransferResult : RedirectResult
{
public MVCTransferResult(string url)
: base(url)
{
}
public MVCTransferResult(object routeValues):base(GetRouteURL(routeValues))
{
}
private static string GetRouteURL(object routeValues)
{
UrlHelper url = new UrlHelper(new RequestContext(new HttpContextWrapper(HttpContext.Current), new RouteData()), RouteTable.Routes);
return url.RouteUrl(routeValues);
}
public override void ExecuteResult(ControllerContext context)
{
var httpContext = HttpContext.Current;
// ASP.NET MVC 3.0
if (context.Controller.TempData != null &&
context.Controller.TempData.Count() > 0)
{
throw new ApplicationException("TempData won't work with Server.TransferRequest!");
}
httpContext.Server.TransferRequest(Url, true); // change to false to pass query string parameters if you have already processed them
// ASP.NET MVC 2.0
//httpContext.RewritePath(Url, false);
//IHttpHandler httpHandler = new MvcHttpHandler();
//httpHandler.ProcessRequest(HttpContext.Current);
}
}
You can use Server.TransferRequest on IIS7+ instead.
I found out recently that ASP.NET MVC doesn't support Server.Transfer() so I've created a stub method (inspired by Default.aspx.cs).
private void Transfer(string url)
{
// Create URI builder
var uriBuilder = new UriBuilder(Request.Url.Scheme, Request.Url.Host, Request.Url.Port, Request.ApplicationPath);
// Add destination URI
uriBuilder.Path += url;
// Because UriBuilder escapes URI decode before passing as an argument
string path = Server.UrlDecode(uriBuilder.Uri.PathAndQuery);
// Rewrite path
HttpContext.Current.RewritePath(path, false);
IHttpHandler httpHandler = new MvcHttpHandler();
// Process request
httpHandler.ProcessRequest(HttpContext.Current);
}
Couldn't you just create an instance of the controller you would like to redirect to, invoke the action method you want, then return the result of that? Something like:
HomeController controller = new HomeController();
return controller.Index();
Rather than simulate a server transfer, MVC is still capable of actually doing a Server.TransferRequest:
public ActionResult Whatever()
{
string url = //...
Request.RequestContext.HttpContext.Server.TransferRequest(url);
return Content("success");//Doesn't actually get returned
}
I wanted to re-route the current request to another controller/action, while keeping the execution path exactly the same as if that second controller/action was requested. In my case, Server.Request wouldn't work because I wanted to add more data. This is actually equivalent the current handler executing another HTTP GET/POST, then streaming the results to the client. I'm sure there will be better ways to achieve this, but here's what works for me:
RouteData routeData = new RouteData();
routeData.Values.Add("controller", "Public");
routeData.Values.Add("action", "ErrorInternal");
routeData.Values.Add("Exception", filterContext.Exception);
var context = new HttpContextWrapper(System.Web.HttpContext.Current);
var request = new RequestContext(context, routeData);
IController controller = ControllerBuilder.Current.GetControllerFactory().CreateController(filterContext.RequestContext, "Public");
controller.Execute(request);
Your guess is right: I put this code in
public class RedirectOnErrorAttribute : ActionFilterAttribute, IExceptionFilter
and I'm using it to display errors to developers, while it'll be using a regular redirect in production. Note that I didn't want to use ASP.NET session, database, or some other ways to pass exception data between requests.
Just instance the other controller and execute it's action method.
You could new up the other controller and invoke the action method returning the result. This will require you to place your view into the shared folder however.
I'm not sure if this is what you meant by duplicate but:
return new HomeController().Index();
Edit
Another option might be to create your own ControllerFactory, this way you can determine which controller to create.
Server.TransferRequest is completely unnecessary in MVC. This is an antiquated feature that was only necessary in ASP.NET because the request came directly to a page and there needed to be a way to transfer a request to another page. Modern versions of ASP.NET (including MVC) have a routing infrastructure that can be customized to route directly to the resource that is desired. There is no point of letting the request reach a controller only to transfer it to another controller when you can simply make the request go directly to the controller and action you want.
What's more is that since you are responding to the original request, there is no need to tuck anything into TempData or other storage just for the sake of routing the request to the right place. Instead, you arrive at the controller action with the original request intact. You also can be rest assured that Google will approve of this approach as it happens entirely on the server side.
While you can do quite a bit from both IRouteConstraint and IRouteHandler, the most powerful extension point for routing is the RouteBase subclass. This class can be extended to provide both incoming routes and outgoing URL generation, which makes it a one stop shop for everything having to do with the URL and the action that URL executes.
So, to follow your second example, to get from / to /home/7, you simply need a route that adds the appropriate route values.
public class RouteConfig
{
public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
{
routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");
// Routes directy to `/home/7`
routes.MapRoute(
name: "Home7",
url: "",
defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", version = 7 }
);
routes.MapRoute(
name: "Default",
url: "{controller}/{action}/{id}",
defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
);
}
}
But going back to your original example where you have a random page, it is more complex because the route parameters cannot change at runtime. So, it could be done with a RouteBase subclass as follows.
public class RandomHomePageRoute : RouteBase
{
private Random random = new Random();
public override RouteData GetRouteData(HttpContextBase httpContext)
{
RouteData result = null;
// Only handle the home page route
if (httpContext.Request.Path == "/")
{
result = new RouteData(this, new MvcRouteHandler());
result.Values["controller"] = "Home";
result.Values["action"] = "Index";
result.Values["version"] = random.Next(10) + 1; // Picks a random number from 1 to 10
}
// If this isn't the home page route, this should return null
// which instructs routing to try the next route in the route table.
return result;
}
public override VirtualPathData GetVirtualPath(RequestContext requestContext, RouteValueDictionary values)
{
var controller = Convert.ToString(values["controller"]);
var action = Convert.ToString(values["action"]);
if (controller.Equals("Home", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase) &&
action.Equals("Index", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
{
// Route to the Home page URL
return new VirtualPathData(this, "");
}
return null;
}
}
Which can be registered in routing like:
public class RouteConfig
{
public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
{
routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");
// Routes to /home/{version} where version is randomly from 1-10
routes.Add(new RandomHomePageRoute());
routes.MapRoute(
name: "Default",
url: "{controller}/{action}/{id}",
defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
);
}
}
Note in the above example, it might make sense to also store a cookie recording the home page version the user came in on so when they return they receive the same home page version.
Note also that using this approach you can customize routing to take query string parameters into consideration (it completely ignores them by default) and route to an appropriate controller action accordingly.
Additional Examples
https://stackoverflow.com/a/31958586
https://stackoverflow.com/a/36774498
https://stackoverflow.com/a/36168395
Doesn't routing just take care of this scenario for you? i.e. for the scenario described above, you could just create a route handler that implemented this logic.
For anyone using expression-based routing, using only the TransferResult class above, here's a controller extension method that does the trick and preserves TempData. No need for TransferToRouteResult.
public static ActionResult TransferRequest<T>(this Controller controller, Expression<Action<T>> action)
where T : Controller
{
controller.TempData.Keep();
controller.TempData.Save(controller.ControllerContext, controller.TempDataProvider);
var url = LinkBuilder.BuildUrlFromExpression(controller.Request.RequestContext, RouteTable.Routes, action);
return new TransferResult(url);
}
Not an answer per se, but clearly the requirement would be not only for the actual navigation to "do" the equivalent functionality of Webforms Server.Transfer(), but also for all of this to be fully supported within unit testing.
Therefore the ServerTransferResult should "look" like a RedirectToRouteResult, and be as similar as possible in terms of the class hierarchy.
I'm thinking of doing this by looking at Reflector, and doing whatever RedirectToRouteResult class and also the various Controller base class methods do, and then "adding" the latter to the Controller via extension methods. Maybe these could be static methods within the same class, for ease/laziness of downloading?
If I get round to doing this I'll post it up, otherwise maybe somebody else might beat me to it!
I achieved this by harnessing the Html.RenderAction helper in a View:
#{
string action = ViewBag.ActionName;
string controller = ViewBag.ControllerName;
object routeValues = ViewBag.RouteValues;
Html.RenderAction(action, controller, routeValues);
}
And in my controller:
public ActionResult MyAction(....)
{
var routeValues = HttpContext.Request.RequestContext.RouteData.Values;
ViewBag.ActionName = "myaction";
ViewBag.ControllerName = "mycontroller";
ViewBag.RouteValues = routeValues;
return PartialView("_AjaxRedirect");
}

Is it possible to make an ASP.NET MVC route based on a subdomain?

Is it possible to have an ASP.NET MVC route that uses subdomain information to determine its route? For example:
user1.domain.example goes to one place
user2.domain.example goes to another?
Or, can I make it so both of these go to the same controller/action with a username parameter?
You can do it by creating a new route and adding it to the routes collection in RegisterRoutes in your global.asax. Below is a very simple example of a custom Route:
public class ExampleRoute : RouteBase
{
public override RouteData GetRouteData(HttpContextBase httpContext)
{
var url = httpContext.Request.Headers["HOST"];
var index = url.IndexOf(".");
if (index < 0)
return null;
var subDomain = url.Substring(0, index);
if (subDomain == "user1")
{
var routeData = new RouteData(this, new MvcRouteHandler());
routeData.Values.Add("controller", "User1"); //Goes to the User1Controller class
routeData.Values.Add("action", "Index"); //Goes to the Index action on the User1Controller
return routeData;
}
if (subDomain == "user2")
{
var routeData = new RouteData(this, new MvcRouteHandler());
routeData.Values.Add("controller", "User2"); //Goes to the User2Controller class
routeData.Values.Add("action", "Index"); //Goes to the Index action on the User2Controller
return routeData;
}
return null;
}
public override VirtualPathData GetVirtualPath(RequestContext requestContext, RouteValueDictionary values)
{
//Implement your formating Url formating here
return null;
}
}
To capture the subdomain while retaining the standard MVC5 routing features, use the following SubdomainRoute class derived from Route.
Additionally, SubdomainRoute allows the subdomain optionally to be specified as a query parameter, making sub.example.com/foo/bar and example.com/foo/bar?subdomain=sub equivalent. This allows you to test before the DNS subdomains are configured. The query parameter (when in use) is propagated through new links generated by Url.Action, etc.
The query parameter also enables local debugging with Visual Studio 2013 without having to configure with netsh or run as Administrator. By default, IIS Express only binds to localhost when non-elevated; it won't bind to synonymous hostnames like sub.localtest.me.
class SubdomainRoute : Route
{
public SubdomainRoute(string url) : base(url, new MvcRouteHandler()) {}
public override RouteData GetRouteData(HttpContextBase httpContext)
{
var routeData = base.GetRouteData(httpContext);
if (routeData == null) return null; // Only look at the subdomain if this route matches in the first place.
string subdomain = httpContext.Request.Params["subdomain"]; // A subdomain specified as a query parameter takes precedence over the hostname.
if (subdomain == null) {
string host = httpContext.Request.Headers["Host"];
int index = host.IndexOf('.');
if (index >= 0)
subdomain = host.Substring(0, index);
}
if (subdomain != null)
routeData.Values["subdomain"] = subdomain;
return routeData;
}
public override VirtualPathData GetVirtualPath(RequestContext requestContext, RouteValueDictionary values)
{
object subdomainParam = requestContext.HttpContext.Request.Params["subdomain"];
if (subdomainParam != null)
values["subdomain"] = subdomainParam;
return base.GetVirtualPath(requestContext, values);
}
}
For convenience, call the following MapSubdomainRoute method from your RegisterRoutes method just as you would plain old MapRoute:
static void MapSubdomainRoute(this RouteCollection routes, string name, string url, object defaults = null, object constraints = null)
{
routes.Add(name, new SubdomainRoute(url) {
Defaults = new RouteValueDictionary(defaults),
Constraints = new RouteValueDictionary(constraints),
DataTokens = new RouteValueDictionary()
});
}
Finally, to conveniently access the subdomain (either from a true subdomain or a query parameter), it is helpful to create a Controller base class with this Subdomain property:
protected string Subdomain
{
get { return (string)Request.RequestContext.RouteData.Values["subdomain"]; }
}
This is not my work, but I had to add it on this answer.
Here is a great solution to this problem. Maartin Balliauw wrote code that creates a DomainRoute class that can be used very similarly to the normal routing.
http://blog.maartenballiauw.be/post/2009/05/20/ASPNET-MVC-Domain-Routing.aspx
Sample use would be like this...
routes.Add("DomainRoute", new DomainRoute(
"{customer}.example.com", // Domain with parameters
"{action}/{id}", // URL with parameters
new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = "" } // Parameter defaults
))
;
To capture the subdomain when using Web API, override the Action Selector to inject a subdomain query parameter. Then use the subdomain query parameter in your controllers' actions like this:
public string Get(string id, string subdomain)
This approach makes debugging convenient since you can specify the query parameter by hand when using localhost instead of the actual host name (see the standard MVC5 routing answer for details). This is the code for Action Selector:
class SubdomainActionSelector : IHttpActionSelector
{
private readonly IHttpActionSelector defaultSelector;
public SubdomainActionSelector(IHttpActionSelector defaultSelector)
{
this.defaultSelector = defaultSelector;
}
public ILookup<string, HttpActionDescriptor> GetActionMapping(HttpControllerDescriptor controllerDescriptor)
{
return defaultSelector.GetActionMapping(controllerDescriptor);
}
public HttpActionDescriptor SelectAction(HttpControllerContext controllerContext)
{
var routeValues = controllerContext.Request.GetRouteData().Values;
if (!routeValues.ContainsKey("subdomain")) {
string host = controllerContext.Request.Headers.Host;
int index = host.IndexOf('.');
if (index >= 0)
controllerContext.Request.GetRouteData().Values.Add("subdomain", host.Substring(0, index));
}
return defaultSelector.SelectAction(controllerContext);
}
}
Replace the default Action Selector by adding this to WebApiConfig.Register:
config.Services.Replace(typeof(IHttpActionSelector), new SubdomainActionSelector(config.Services.GetActionSelector()));
Yes but you have to create your own route handler.
Typically the route is not aware of the domain because the application could be deployed to any domain and the route would not care one way or another. But in your case you want to base the controller and action off the domain, so you will have to create a custom route that is aware of the domain.
I created library for subdomain routing which you can create such a route. It is working currently for a .NET Core 1.1 and .NET Framework 4.6.1 but will be updated in near future. This is how is it working:
1) Map subdomain route in Startup.cs
public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app, IHostingEnvironment env, ILoggerFactory loggerFactory)
{
var hostnames = new[] { "localhost:54575" };
app.UseMvc(routes =>
{
routes.MapSubdomainRoute(
hostnames,
"SubdomainRoute",
"{username}",
"{controller}/{action}",
new { controller = "Home", action = "Index" });
)};
2) Controllers/HomeController.cs
public IActionResult Index(string username)
{
//code
}
3) That lib will also allow you to generate URLs and forms. Code:
#Html.ActionLink("User home", "Index", "Home" new { username = "user1" }, null)
Will generate User home
Generated URL will also depend on current host location and schema.
You can also use html helpers for BeginForm and UrlHelper. If you like you can also use new feature called tag helpers (FormTagHelper, AnchorTagHelper)
That lib does not have any documentation yet, but there are some tests and samples project so feel free to explore it.
In ASP.NET Core, the host is available via Request.Host.Host. If you want to allow overriding the host via a query parameter, first check Request.Query.
To cause a host query parameter to propagate into to new route-based URLs, add this code to the app.UseMvc route configuration:
routes.Routes.Add(new HostPropagationRouter(routes.DefaultHandler));
And define HostPropagationRouter like this:
/// <summary>
/// A router that propagates the request's "host" query parameter to the response.
/// </summary>
class HostPropagationRouter : IRouter
{
readonly IRouter router;
public HostPropagationRouter(IRouter router)
{
this.router = router;
}
public VirtualPathData GetVirtualPath(VirtualPathContext context)
{
if (context.HttpContext.Request.Query.TryGetValue("host", out var host))
context.Values["host"] = host;
return router.GetVirtualPath(context);
}
public Task RouteAsync(RouteContext context) => router.RouteAsync(context);
}
After defining a new Route handler that would look at the host passed in the URL, you can go with the idea of a base Controller that is aware of the Site it’s being accessed for. It looks like this:
public abstract class SiteController : Controller {
ISiteProvider _siteProvider;
public SiteController() {
_siteProvider = new SiteProvider();
}
public SiteController(ISiteProvider siteProvider) {
_siteProvider = siteProvider;
}
protected override void Initialize(RequestContext requestContext) {
string[] host = requestContext.HttpContext.Request.Headers["Host"].Split(':');
_siteProvider.Initialise(host[0]);
base.Initialize(requestContext);
}
protected override void OnActionExecuting(ActionExecutingContext filterContext) {
ViewData["Site"] = Site;
base.OnActionExecuting(filterContext);
}
public Site Site {
get {
return _siteProvider.GetCurrentSite();
}
}
}
ISiteProvider is a simple interface:
public interface ISiteProvider {
void Initialise(string host);
Site GetCurrentSite();
}
I refer you go to Luke Sampson Blog
If you are looking at giving MultiTenancy capabilities to your project with different domains/subdomains for each tenant, you should have a look at SaasKit:
https://github.com/saaskit/saaskit
Code examples can be seen here: http://benfoster.io/blog/saaskit-multi-tenancy-made-easy
Some examples using ASP.NET core: http://andrewlock.net/forking-the-pipeline-adding-tenant-specific-files-with-saaskit-in-asp-net-core/
EDIT:
If you do no want to use SaasKit in your ASP.NET core project you can have a look at Maarten's implementation of domain routing for MVC6: https://blog.maartenballiauw.be/post/2015/02/17/domain-routing-and-resolving-current-tenant-with-aspnet-mvc-6-aspnet-5.html
However those Gists are not maintained and need to be tweaked to work with the latest release of ASP.NET core.
Direct link to the code: https://gist.github.com/maartenba/77ca6f9cfef50efa96ec#file-domaintemplateroutebuilderextensions-cs
Few month ago I have developed an attribute that restricts methods or controllers to specific domains.
It is quite easy to use:
[IsDomain("localhost","example.com","www.example.com","*.t1.example.com")]
[HttpGet("RestrictedByHost")]
public IActionResult Test(){}
You can also apply it directly on a controller.
public class IsDomainAttribute : Attribute, Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Filters.IAuthorizationFilter
{
public IsDomainAttribute(params string[] domains)
{
Domains = domains;
}
public string[] Domains { get; }
public void OnAuthorization(AuthorizationFilterContext context)
{
var host = context.HttpContext.Request.Host.Host;
if (Domains.Contains(host))
return;
if (Domains.Any(d => d.EndsWith("*"))
&& Domains.Any(d => host.StartsWith(d.Substring(0, d.Length - 1))))
return;
if (Domains.Any(d => d.StartsWith("*"))
&& Domains.Any(d => host.EndsWith(d.Substring(1))))
return;
context.Result = new Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.NotFoundResult();//.ChallengeResult
}
}
Restriction:
you may not be able to have two same routes on different methods with different filters
I mean the following may throw an exception for duplicate route:
[IsDomain("test1.example.com")]
[HttpGet("/Test")]
public IActionResult Test1(){}
[IsDomain("test2.example.com")]
[HttpGet("/Test")]
public IActionResult Test2(){}

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