How do I run my Orchard Module? - asp.net-mvc

Question

I have an almost standalone Orchard module. It is an app comprising a collection of controllers and views, and in performs it's own EF based data access.
Once I have installed and activated this module in Orchard, how do I request it's controller actions and be served it's views in response? I understand it must have a Routes class and suspect it is something here that I must do to enable access to my module. I know a module is actually an Area, but I still battle to understand the Routes class.
Let's say my module has one controller, action and view, Home, Index, and Index, being Home/Index. Once Orchard is up and running, how do I access this specific Index actin?

Answer 1

There is a good guide in the Orchard Documentation to Creating an Orchard Module that uses its own controllers.
Here is a code sample taken from that guide that creates the routes for a module called HelloWorld:
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Web.Mvc;
using System.Web.Routing;
using Orchard.Mvc.Routes;
namespace HelloWorld {
public class Routes : IRouteProvider {
public void GetRoutes(ICollection<RouteDescriptor> routes) {
foreach (var routeDescriptor in GetRoutes())
routes.Add(routeDescriptor);
}
public IEnumerable<RouteDescriptor> GetRoutes() {
return new[] {
new RouteDescriptor {
Priority = 5,
Route = new Route(
"HelloWorld",
new RouteValueDictionary {
{"area", "HelloWorld"},
{"controller", "Home"},
{"action", "Index"}
},
new RouteValueDictionary(),
new RouteValueDictionary {
{"area", "HelloWorld"}
},
new MvcRouteHandler())
}
};
}
}
}
If you create a class that implements IRouteProvider you can let Orchard know the routes for your controllers.