Question

I have an action method returning a JsonResult in my controller:

    public JsonResult GetDetails()
    {
        var rows = //Linq-To-SQL
        //Linq-To-Entities
        var lifts = (from r in rows
                     group r by new { r.LiftID, r.LiftDate } into g
                     select new
                     {
                         ID = g.Key.LiftID,
                         Date = g.Key.LiftDate.ToShortDateString(),
                         Driver = g.Where(x => x.IsDriver)
                                    .Select(x => x.p).Single().Name,
                         Passengers = g.Where(x => !x.IsDriver)
                                        .Select(x => x.p.Name)
                                        .Aggregate((x, y) => x + ", " + y)
                     }).ToList();
        return Json(lifts);
    }

I use the result in a jQuery script to write out a table.

The data looks like:

ID | Date | Driver | Passengers

1 | 20/06/2010 | David Neale | John Smith, Paul Jones

etc…

I would like the names to be hyperlinks to the route Person\{id} I.e. <a href="\Person\7">David Neale</a>. The p property corresponds to a Person object containing both Name and ID.

I don’t want to construct the URL manually. How would I construct the object to contain the names as hyperlinks using the MVC routing engine?

Answer 1

It’s fairly easy.

Just use Url.Action(“actionName”, “controllerName”, params)

It will create a string using the routing engine, so if you change the routes your code will keep workin just fine