Question

I am using the following code to get the current “action” in my view because I want to custom build an actionlink based on it.

ViewContext.RequestContext.RouteData.Values("action")

My end goal is to build some action links with Javascript, and the .js needs to know what the current controller and action is since I’d like it to be flexible. I found the above by browsing through the framework but I don’t know if I’ve found the correct thing.

i.e.

var routeData = ViewContext.RequestContext.RouteData;
var linkStub = '/@routeData.Values("controller")/@routeData.Values("action")';

Does anyone know if this is the easiest/most straightforward way to do this?

Answer 1

cleanest way would be an extension method

public static class MyUrlHelper
{
    public static string CurrentAction(this UrlHelper urlHelper)
    {
        var routeValueDictionary = urlHelper.RequestContext.RouteData.Values;
        // in case using virtual dirctory 
        var rootUrl = urlHelper.Content("~/");
        return string.Format("{0}{1}/{2}/", rootUrl, routeValueDictionary["controller"], routeValueDictionary["action"]);
    }
}