Question

Is it just me or has anyone else been annoyed by the fact that we have to use a lot of constants to handle redirections from one action to another across different controllers. I have tried to implement a reflection based approch to tackle this issue, but was wondering how others have approached this ( If you have seen this as an issue , of course 🙂 )

As an example, what I did is implemented something like this to get an action name.

  public static string ActionName(Func<ActionResult> methodContainer)
        {
            return methodContainer.Method.Name;
        }

and to get the controller name,

   public static string ControllerName<T>() where T : class
        {
            Type t = typeof (T);
            return t.Name.Replace(ControllerConstants.Controller, string.Empty);
        }

Any better approaches than this?

/Bumble Bee

Answer 1

Check out MVCContrib library, link below addresses exactly the issue you’re dealing with…it’s been around since MVC v1.

http://mvccontrib.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=RedirectToAction&referringTitle=Documentation

It’s also on nuget, so it should be easy to give it a spin.

http://nuget.org/List/Packages/MvcContrib.Mvc3-ci