Question

I have this code in a JavaScript function:

var url = '@Url.Action(MVC.Membership.User.ActionNames.Update, MVC.Membership.User.Name)';

url += "?userName=" + userName;

ul.append("<li><a href=" + url + "\>" + userName + "</a></li>");

Membership is an Area. I’m using T4MVC to refer to Controller and Action names to avoid magic strings… 🙂

This JavaScript code is part of View that resides in the Membership Area.

UserController is decorated this way:

[RouteArea("Membership")]
public partial class UserController : BaseController

and the Action method is this one:

[GET("Users/Update/{userName}")]
public virtual ActionResult Update(string userName)

The route I get in the link is this:

http://localhost:8087/membership/User/Update?userName=leniel

I expected it to be:

http://localhost:8087/membership/users/update?userName=leniel

So my question is: why the link is not in lowercase since all other links in the app are being generated with lower case letters? Is this not supported or am I forgetting some config related to AttributeRouting or the Area setup?

Answer 1

After the feedback from AttributeRouting creator… turns out it was my bad.

Now I understand the problem…

If I do this:

var url = '@Url.Action(MVC.Membership.Permission.ActionNames.GrantRevoke, MVC.Membership.Permission.Name, new { area = "Membership", roleName= "Teste" }, null)';

The URL is generated correctly:

var url = '/membership/permissions/grantrevoke/teste';

but if I do this:

var url = '@Url.Action(MVC.Membership.Permission.ActionNames.GrantRevoke, MVC.Membership.Permission.Name, new { area = "Membership" }, null)';

I get this:

var url = '/Membership/Permission/GrantRevoke';

It’s clear that I need to pass the roleName parameter.