Question

How is this achievable in asp.net mvc? I have seen some ruby examples out there…

Github like routes in Rails

i.e. nested folders, can be unlimited… however they are usually nested once

e.g.

lets say my main route in my app is:

/projects/{projectid}/

I am hooked into a file system, so I want users to navigate through whatever directory structure so I can have:

/projects/{projectid}/foldera/
/projects/{projectid}/folderb/
/projects/{projectid}/foldera/pic1.png
/projects/{projectid}/folderb/special/car134d.jpeg

etc…

This way I can only show files or pictures that are inside the url/directory the user is in…

Answer 1

I think what you’re after is the {*queryvalues} segmented url handler for routing. The * indicates a wildcard-style match of one or more segments, delimited by a “/”.

To map to a physical path, you can use this to add a route to your Global.asax.cs:

routes.MapPageRoute(
            "Projects", // Route name
            "projects/{projectId}/{*path}", // Route url format
            "~/ProjectFolder/{projectId}/{path}" // Path to files
            );

If you want to get the path into an MVC Controller Action and then do something with it, you could use MapRoute:

routes.MapRoute(
            "Projects", // Route name
            "projects/{projectId}/{*path}", // Route url format
            new { controller = "Project", action = "Index" } // Defaults
            );

Then create a ProjectController, and in the Index action retrieve RouteData.Values["projectId"] and RouteData.Values["path"] and do whatever you need to with them…