MVC Blog URL Routing - asp.net-mvc-routing

Question

I have my requirement to generate my URL as
/2013/10/custome-mvc-url-rout-to-display-mixture-of-id-and-urlslug
I have seen many questions to achieve it & my question may have possibility of Duplicate.. Like:-
asp-net-mvc-framework-part-2-url-routing
custome-mvc-url-rout-to-display-mixture-of-id-and-urlslug
etc...
I have achieved it as follows:-
routes.MapRoute(
name: "Default",
url: "{controller}/{action}/{id}",
defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
);
routes.MapRoute(
"Post",
"{year}/{month}/{title}",
new { controller = "Blog", action = "Post" }
);
and my Hyperlink which would generate this would be :-
#Html.ActionLink("continue...", "post", "blog",
new {
year = Model.PostedOn.Year,
month = Model.PostedOn.Month,
day = Model.PostedOn.Day,
title = Model.UrlSlug
}, new { title = "continue..." })
My MVC Controller being :-
public ViewResult Post(int year, int month, string title)
{}
But the issue over here is , I am getting my URL as :
http://localhost:2083/blog/post?Year=2013&Month=10&Day=9&title=best_practices_in_programming
and not like :-
http://localhost:2083/blog/post/2013/10/best_practices_in_programming
What am I doing wrong ? Please can someone point it.
Thnks!

Answer 1

I tried this and it worked as long as you put this route before the default route in RouteConfig.cs like this:
routes.MapRoute(
null,
"{year}/{month}/{title}",
new { controller = "Blog", action = "Post" },
new { year = #"\d+", month = #"\d+", title = #"[\w\-]*" });
You should also change the title to use hyphens instead of underscores IMO. Here is a good helper to do this.
#region ToSlug(), AsMovedPermanently
public static class PermanentRedirectionExtensions
{
public static PermanentRedirectToRouteResult AsMovedPermanently
(this RedirectToRouteResult redirection)
{
return new PermanentRedirectToRouteResult(redirection);
}
}
public class PermanentRedirectToRouteResult : ActionResult
{
public RedirectToRouteResult Redirection { get; private set; }
public PermanentRedirectToRouteResult(RedirectToRouteResult redirection)
{
this.Redirection = redirection;
}
public override void ExecuteResult(ControllerContext context)
{
// After setting up a normal redirection, switch it to a 301
Redirection.ExecuteResult(context);
context.HttpContext.Response.StatusCode = 301;
context.HttpContext.Response.Status = "301 Moved Permanently";
}
}
public static class StringExtensions
{
private static readonly Encoding Encoding = Encoding.GetEncoding("Cyrillic");
public static string RemoveAccent(this string value)
{
byte[] bytes = Encoding.GetBytes(value);
return Encoding.ASCII.GetString(bytes);
}
public static string ToSlug(this string value)
{
if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(value))
{
return string.Empty;
}
var str = value.RemoveAccent().ToLowerInvariant();
str = Regex.Replace(str, #"[^a-z0-9\s-]", "");
str = Regex.Replace(str, #"\s+", " ").Trim();
str = str.Substring(0, str.Length <= 200 ? str.Length : 200).Trim();
str = Regex.Replace(str, #"\s", "-");
str = Regex.Replace(str, #"-+", "-");
return str;
}
}
#endregion
Then you would also have to have a helper that replaces each hyphen with a whitespace from the url parameter title that you will likely pass to the controller action Post to query for the Post in the DB.