Question

I couldn’t think of a reasonable title for this post.

The problem I’m having is that I have an SQL database attached to my MVC website. Within the website I have a news/blog system that I have worked on which stores the data in the database and pulls the information on request.

The problem is the routing. I currently have it set up to pull the information about the routing of each individual page as this:

var newsr = new NewsResources();

foreach (var item in newsr.GetAllNewsItems())
{
item.Title = item.Title.Replace(‘ ‘, ‘-‘).ToLower();

routes.MapRoute(item.Title, "News/" + item.Title,
new {controller = "News", action = "Post", id = item.ID});}

When I add a new news item however, this doesn’t go into the routing system which is proving to be a right pain. I’ve had a google search for dynamically adding url routing but I can’t seem to find a solution.

What I want to know is, is it possible to add a page to the routing system via the page controller once I have saved the post into the database?

Answer 1

I do not think you need to Do a For Each loop across all your POst item and add routes for that. You may do it like this

public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
{
     routes.MapRoute("SingleItem", "News/{title}",
             new { controller = "Items", action = "PostFromTitle" });

     // and the generic route
     routes.MapRoute(
            "Default", 
            "{controller}/{action}/{id}",
            new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", 
                                  id = UrlParameter.Optional } 
        );

}

This will route ../News/SomeTitle request to your PostFromTitle action method of NewsController. Read the title there and get the post from there.

public ActionResult PostFromTitle(string title)
{
  var post=repo.GetPostFromTitle(title);
  return View("~/Views/News/Post.cshtml",post);
}