Question

I have a request and it has a route but there are loads of them as set up in the global.asax…one typical route is…

routes.MapRoute(
                "NewStore",
                "{culture}/{client}/{brand}/NewStore/{action}",
                new
                {
                    culture = UrlParameter.Optional,
                    client = UrlParameter.Optional,
                    brand = UrlParameter.Optional,
                    controller = "NewStore",
                    action = "Index"
                }
                );

I need to create a ddl that switches the culture on the page. So actually all I want to do is recreate the route url but change one argument. So I want to do something lhe this…

    Route currentRoute = httpContext.GetCurrentRoute();
    Route englishCultureRoute = currentRoute;
    Route spanishRoute = currentRoute;
    englishCultureRoute.RouteData.Values["culture"] = "en-en"
    spanishRoute RouteData.Values["culture"] = "es-es"

@Html.SelectListForRoutes(englishCultureRoute,spanishRoute);

So the above is pseudocode, I want to do the first bit in a controller but how do I do this in c#?

Answer 1

you can access the route data from the controller from

RouteData

if you want to assign new values you can do something like this

public ActionResult Index(int id)
{
    RouteData.Values["id"] = 555;
    return View();
}

and in the view you can access the route data values from

@ViewContext.RouteData.Values["Id"]

but if your taking about globalizing your app there are better solutions , you can check this