Question

I have a CMS system that I am using Routing to get the page name. I have the need to have unlimited values (sub directories, product names, different localizations) between the first item and the last item (page name).

For example:

/Products/Computers/ComputerType1/

And

/Productos/Ordenadores/ComputerType1/

Where ComputerType1 is the page name.

routes.Add(new Route("{*route}/{pageName}", routeHandler));

I cannot find a way to make the middle part ({*route}) of the route to be the wildcard so that unlimited number of sub directories can be put in front of the page name. Currently I have only been able to get around this with having a default wildcard route such as:

routes.Add(new Route("{*route}", routeHandler));

to catch everything. However, the wildcard seems to also be letting in gif urls even thou I have it specified as ignore above in the route code as:

routes.Ignore("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");
routes.Ignore("{resource}.asmx/{*pathInfo}");
routes.Ignore("{resource}.ashx/{*pathInfo}");
routes.Ignore("{resource}.gif/{*pathInfo}");
routes.Ignore("{resource}.png/{*pathInfo}");
routes.Ignore("{resource}.jpg/{*pathInfo}");
routes.Ignore("{resource}.ico/{*pathInfo}");
routes.Ignore("{resource}.pdf/{*pathInfo}");
routes.Ignore("{resource}.css/{*pathInfo}");
routes.Ignore("{resource}.js/{*pathInfo}");

Is there a better way of doing this? Should this be handled thru a custom route handler?

Answer 1

yes you should create a route handler for cases like these
simple create a class and derive it from RouteBase
override the GetRouteData method
in this method you can access the current httpcontext and thus you can access the requested URL
so u can route accordingly.
for more info on custom routes visit this link
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/299531/Custom-routes-for-MVC-Application