Question

ASP.NET MVC routes have names when mapped:

routes.MapRoute(     'Debug', // Route name -- how can I use this later????     'debug/{controller}/{action}/{id}',     new { controller = 'Home', action = 'Index', id = string.Empty } ); 

Is there a way to get the route name, e.g. ‘Debug’ in the above example? I’d like to access it in the controller’s OnActionExecuting so that I can set up stuff in the ViewData when debugging, for example, by prefixing a URL with /debug/…

Answer 1

The route name is not stored in the route unfortunately. It is just used internally in MVC as a key in a collection. I think this is something you can still use when creating links with HtmlHelper.RouteLink for example (maybe somewhere else too, no idea).

Anyway, I needed that too and here is what I did:

public static class RouteCollectionExtensions {     public static Route MapRouteWithName(this RouteCollection routes,     string name, string url, object defaults, object constraints)     {         Route route = routes.MapRoute(name, url, defaults, constraints);         route.DataTokens = new RouteValueDictionary();         route.DataTokens.Add("RouteName", name);          return route;     } } 

So I could register a route like this:

routes.MapRouteWithName(     "myRouteName",     "{controller}/{action}/{username}",     new { controller = "Home", action = "List" }     ); 

In my Controller action, I can access the route name with:

RouteData.DataTokens["RouteName"]