I have a bit of problem
I have an MVC site that is working just fine.
I wanted to have SEO friendly urls so I created custom routing that looks like this
{section}/{group}/{manufacturer}
since it has the same number of fields as the default route
{controller}/{action}/{id}
i created in loop in RouteConfig.cs that goes to database and loops Sections table and creates custom routes like
FOOD/{group}/{manufacturer}
SPORT/{group}/{manufacturer}
CARS/{group}/{manufacturer}
and point it to the Sections controller.
It works just fine. The problem I have is that now i need to rename FOOD to FRESH-FOOD and i want to keep old links to FOOD working.
What would you recommend ? How can I solve this ?
Is there a better way to do route Section instead of custom routes ?
Sounds like this might be a good case for a custom route handler. In the ProcessRequest method below you can check for controller name of "FOOD" and redirect to "FRESH-FOOD" like this:
public class CustomRouteHandler : IRouteHandler
{
public IHttpHandler GetHttpHandler(RequestContext requestContext)
{
return new CustomHttpHandler();
}
}
public class CustomHttpHandler : IHttpHandler
{
public bool IsReusable
{
get
{
return true;
}
}
public void ProcessRequest(HttpContext context)
{
var routeValues = context.Request.RequestContext.RouteData.Values;
var controllerName = context.Request.RequestContext.RouteData.GetRequiredString("controller");
if (controllerName.ToLower() == "food") controllerName = "FRESH-FOOD";
var controller = ControllerBuilder.Current.GetControllerFactory().
CreateController(context.Request.RequestContext, controllerName);
if (controller != null)
{
controller.Execute(context.Request.RequestContext);
}
}
}
When you create your custom routes use the Route constructor overload that takes an IRouteHandler
Related
I have an ASP.NET MVC 4 app that i'm incorporating an OData API into. This is running the 2012.2 stuff with the larger OData support.
I did not use a separate area for this...that might have been a mistake but my app is small and area seemed overkill.
I've got my controllers setup correctly and an example path to my Segments collection (segments is a type in my domain) is "/odata/Segments". This loads as expected and is working.
On my homepage i'm trying to add a link to this resource using Razor's Html.ActionLink (or RouteLink) but it seems the OData controllers layout doesn't quite work with those methods because the controllers are prefixed with "odata" when registered in WebAPIConfig:
config.Routes.MapODataRoute("OData Route", "odata", model );
I can trick the method to construct the correct url by pretending there's an odata controller when there certainly isn't one (as far as i know) with something like this:
#Html.RouteLink("Segments", "Segments", "odata")
but that seems like a hack.
I don't quite understand the ASP.NET routing plumbing well enough to understand how that prefix passed to MapODataRoute is being incorporated into the MVC chain so that i can use the "right" razor method the "right" way.
just for kicks, here's my SegmentsController:
public class SegmentsController : EntitySetController<Segment, long>
{
private MarketerDB db = new MarketerDB();
// GET api/segments
override public IQueryable<Segment> Get()
{
return db.Segments.AsQueryable();
}
protected override Segment GetEntityByKey(long key)
{
return db.Segments.Find(key);
}
public IQueryable<Affiliate> GetAffiliates([FromODataUri] long key)
{
return this.GetEntityByKey(key).Affiliates.AsQueryable();
}
protected override void Dispose(bool disposing)
{
db.Dispose();
base.Dispose(disposing);
}
}
We have an ODataLink method on System.Web.Http.UrlHelper but we forgot to add one to the MVC System.Web.Mvc.UrlHelper. Till we add it, you can use this extension method,
namespace System.Web.Mvc
{
public static class UrlHelperExtensions
{
private static IODataPathHandler _pathHandler = new DefaultODataPathHandler();
public static string ODataUrl(this UrlHelper urlHelper, string routeName, params ODataPathSegment[] segments)
{
string odataPath = _pathHandler.Link(new ODataPath(segments));
return urlHelper.HttpRouteUrl(
routeName,
new RouteValueDictionary() { { ODataRouteConstants.ODataPath, odataPath } });
}
}
}
and call it from your razor views by doing something like (assuming there is an entityset customers and you want to put the navigation link to orders on customers(42)),
#Url.ODataUrl("odata", new EntitySetPathSegment("customers"), new KeyValuePathSegment("42"), new NavigationPathSegment("orders"))
Make sure you have an #using System.Web.Http.OData.Routing directive in your razor view.
I've integrated some pages written in ASP.NET MVC 2, into a classic webform app.
Everything works well except the authentication system.
The authentication system is using some token added to the url like :
/Account/Profil/Details.aspx?AUTHID=2ddc098a-cf0b-fd81-afb7-d41f35010b9f
When i reach my asp.net mvc pages (all these pages must be secured), they must include that AUTHID parameter.
I'm using the core Webform control to secure the pages, and this control check for the AUTHID token in the url. So basicly my route must include the
?AUTHID=2ddc098a-cf0b-fd81-afb7-d41f35010b9f
What the best and clever way to do this ?
I don't want to pass the AUTHID parameter manually in all controller actions.
Thanks for your help.
You can solve your problem by extending the ASP.NET routing mechanism. Just create a custom route and override the GetVirtualPath function.
public class TokenizedRoute : Route
{
public TokenizedRoute(string url, IRouteHandler routeHandler) : base(url, routeHandler)
{
}
public override VirtualPathData GetVirtualPath(RequestContext requestContext, RouteValueDictionary values)
{
string tokenValue = "your token value";
values.Add("AUTHID", tokenValue);
return base.GetVirtualPath(requestContext, values);
}
}
See my blog post for more details.
You could use a jQuery solution to append a token to the query string of all links:
$("a").each(function (index, link)
{
$(link).attr("href", $(link).attr("href") + "?AUTHID=" + token);
});
But I agree with dknaack, I would say you should reconsider your authentication logic if at all possible.
You can save the AuthId in the Session object and create a custom Authorize Attribute.
Attribute
public class CustomAuthorize : AuthorizeAttribute
{
protected override bool AuthorizeCore(HttpContextBase httpContext)
{
// your custom logic depending on Session["AuthId"]
return httpContext.Session["AuthId"] != null;
}
}
Controller
public class MyController : Controller
{
[CustomAuthorize]
public ActionResult MyActionMethod()
{
return View();
}
}
hope this helps
I have some links on my page for which the controllers are yet to be created. I have my custom controller factory like this:
public class MyControllerFactory : DefaultControllerFactory
{
public override IController CreateController(RequestContext requestContext, string controllerName)
{
try
{
IController controller = base.CreateController(requestContext, controllerName);
HttpContext.Current.Items["Controller"] = controller;
return controller;
}
catch { return null; }
}
}
This works fine as long as it can find controller. However I throws yellow screen of death if I return null from my method. How can I gracefully handle this? I want to redirect to some page along with 404 nicely formatted message or maybe show some message such as "In Progress".
Did you try adding this?
[HandleError(ExceptionType = typeof(NullReferenceException), Order = 1, View = "NotFound")]
you will have to add a NotFound view to the shared views folder. Annotate your controller factory with this attribute.
I am creating an ActionResult in ASP.Net MVC to serve images. With Session state enabled, IIS will only handle one request at a time from the same user. (This is true not just in MVC.)
Therefore, on a page with multiple images calling back to this Action, only one image request can be handled at a time. It's synchronous.
I'd like this image Action to be asynchronous -- I'd like multiple image requests to each execute without needing the previous one to complete. (If the images were just static files, IIS would serve them up this way.)
So, I'd like to disable Session just for calls to that Action, or to specify that certain requests do not have Session state. Anyone know how this is done in MVC? Thanks!
If anyone is in the situation I was in, where your image controller actually needs read only access to the session, you can put the SessionState attribute on your controller
[SessionState(SessionStateBehavior.ReadOnly)]
See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.mvc.sessionstateattribute.aspx for more info.
Thanks to https://stackoverflow.com/a/4235006/372926
Rather than implementing an action filter for this, why don't you implement a RouteHandler?
Here's the deal - IRouteHandler has one method - GetHttpHandler. When you make an ASP.Net MVC request to a controller, by default the routing engine handles the request by creating a new instance of MvcRouteHandler, which returns an MvcHandler. MvcHandler is an implementation of IHttpHandler which is marked with the (surprise!) IRequiresSessionState interface. This is why a normal request uses Session.
If you follow my blog post on how to implement a custom RouteHandler (instead of using MvcRouteHandler) for serving up images - you can skip returning a session-tagged IHttpHandler.
This should free IIS from imposing synchronicity on you. It would also likely be more performant because it's skipping all the layers of the MVC code dealing with filters.
I also came across the same problem and after doing R&D this link worked for me
Reference:
https://techatfingers.wordpress.com/2016/06/14/session-state-on-action/
Create custom Attribute
Override the “GetControllerSessionBehavior” method present in class DefaultControllerFactory.
Register it in global.aspx
1> Create custom Attribute
public sealed class ActionSessionStateAttribute : Attribute
{
public SessionStateBehavior SessionBehavior { get; private set; }
public ActionSessionStateAttribute(SessionStateBehavior sessionBehavior)
{
SessionBehavior = sessioBehavior;
}
}
2. Override
public class SessionControllerFactory : DefaultControllerFactory
{
protected override SessionStateBehavior GetControllerSessionBehavior(RequestContext requestContext, Type controllerType)
{
if (controllerType == null)
return SessionStateBehavior.Default;
var actionName = requestContext.RouteData.Values["action"].ToString();
Type typeOfRequest=requestContext.HttpContext.Request.RequestType.ToLower() =="get"?typeof(HttpGetAttribute):typeof(HttpPostAttribute);
// [Line1]
var cntMethods = controllerType.GetMethods()
.Where(m =>
m.Name == actionName &&
( ( typeOfRequest == typeof(HttpPostAttribute) &&
m.CustomAttributes.Where(a => a.AttributeType == typeOfRequest).Count()>0
)
||
( typeOfRequest == typeof(HttpGetAttribute) &&
m.CustomAttributes.Where(a => a.AttributeType == typeof(HttpPostAttribute)).Count() == 0
)
)
);
MethodInfo actionMethodInfo = actionMethodInfo = cntMethods != null && cntMethods.Count() == 1 ? cntMethods.ElementAt(0):null;
if (actionMethodInfo != null)
{
var sessionStateAttr = actionMethodInfo.GetCustomAttributes(typeof(ActionSessionStateAttribute), false)
.OfType<ActionSessionStateAttribute>()
.FirstOrDefault();
if (sessionStateAttr != null)
{
return sessionStateAttr.Behavior;
}
}
return base.GetControllerSessionBehavior(requestContext, controllerType);
}
3. Register class in Global.asax
public class MvcApplication : System.Web.HttpApplication
{
protected void Application_Start()
{
// --- other code ---
ControllerBuilder.Current.SetControllerFactory(typeof(SessionControllerFactory));
}
}
Try serving the images from another domain. So something like images.mysite.com.
This will provide you two benefits: One, sessions are tracked by a cookie, so images.mysite.com won't have the cookie. Two, it will give you an additional two concurrent requests to retrieve images.
Have you considered setting up a HttpHandler to serve up your images?
SessionState attribute is quite helpful if u use mvc3. How to achieve this with mvc2 needs a little more coding.
Idea is to tell the asp.net that specific request wont use session object.
So, Create a custom route handler for specific requests
public class CustomRouteHandler : IRouteHandler
{
public System.Web.IHttpHandler GetHttpHandler(RequestContext requestContext)
{
requestContext.HttpContext.SetSessionStateBehavior(System.Web.SessionState.SessionStateBehavior.ReadOnly);
return new MvcHandler(requestContext);
}
}
SessionStateBehavior enum has 4 members, you should use "disabled" or "readonly" modes to get async behavior.
After creating this custom route handler, be sure that your specific requests goes through this handler. This can be done via defining new routes at Global.asax
routes.Add("Default", new Route(
"{controller}/{action}",
new RouteValueDictionary(new { controller = "Home", action = "Index"}),
new CustomRouteHandler()
));
Adding this route makes all your requests to be handled by your custom route handler class. You can make it specific by defining different routes.
Change DefaultCOntrollerFactory to custom ControllerFactory class. Default Controller.TempDataProvider use SessionStateTempDataProvider. you can change it.
1.Set web.config/system.web/sessionState:mode="Off".
2.create DictionaryTempDataProvider class.
public class DictionaryTempDataProvider : ITempDataProvider
{
public IDictionary<string, object> LoadTempData(ControllerContext controllerContext)
{
return new Dictionary<string, object>();
}
public void SaveTempData(ControllerContext controllerContext, IDictionary<string, object> values)
{
}
}
3.Create DictionaryTempDataControllerFactory
public class DictionaryTempDataControllerFactory : DefaultControllerFactory
{
public override IController CreateController(System.Web.Routing.RequestContext requestContext, string controllerName)
{
var controller = base.CreateController(requestContext, controllerName) as Controller;
if (controller!=null)
controller.TempDataProvider = new DictionaryTempDataProvider();
return controller;
}
}
4.In global.asax.cs Apprication_Start event set DictionaryTempDataControllerFactory.
protected void Application_Start()
{
RegisterRoutes(RouteTable.Routes);
ControllerBuilder.Current.SetControllerFactory(
new DictionaryTempDataControllerFactory()
);
}
On our server, IIS doesn't even know about sessions - it's the ASP.NET stack that handles one request per session at a time. Static files, like images, are never affected.
Is it possible that your ASP.NET app is serving the files instead of IIS?
Create new Controller
Decorate controler with [SessionState(SessionStateBehavior.Disabled)]
Refactor code you want seesion stated disabled for to that controller
I would to share my solution for disable ASP.NET Session for an specific request (in my case, a WCF Service) using an HttpModule:
public class AspNetSessionFilterModule : IHttpModule
{
public void Init(HttpApplication context)
{
context.PostMapRequestHandler += OnPostMapRequestHandler;
}
private void OnPostMapRequestHandler(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
var context = (sender as HttpApplication).Context;
DisableSessionForSomeRequests(context);
}
private void DisableSessionForSomeRequests(HttpContext context)
{
if ("~/Services/MyService.svc".Equals(context.Request.AppRelativeCurrentExecutionFilePath, StringComparison.InvariantCultureIgnoreCase))
{
context.SetSessionStateBehavior(System.Web.SessionState.SessionStateBehavior.Disabled);
}
}
public void Dispose()
{ }
}
I have the pattern User/{domain}/{username} set up via Routing. Everything works except for one thing. I can't figure out how to get the domain and username variables passed to my redirected page. Below is my GetHttpHandler method from my IRouteHandler implementation.
public IHttpHandler GetHttpHandler(RequestContext requestContext)
{
string basePath;
basePath = "~/UserPage.aspx";
string domain = requestContext.RouteData.GetRequiredString("domain");
string username = requestContext.RouteData.GetRequiredString("username");
string virtualPath =
string.Format(basePath + "?domain={0}&username={1}", domain, username);
return (Page)BuildManager.CreateInstanceFromVirtualPath(virtualPath, typeof(Page));
}
I get the error from the last line of code:
UserPage.aspx?domain=SOMEDOMAIN&username=SOMEUSER is not a valid virtual path.
So how are you supposed to pass variables to the target page? what am I missing?
I think I solved this one myself.
Found this loop
foreach (KeyValuePair<string, object> token in requestContext.RouteData.Values)
{
requestContext.HttpContext.Items.Add(token.Key, token.Value);
}
from http://www.codethinked.com/post/2008/08/20/Exploring-SystemWebRouting.aspx
Its like the 4th code sample down.
UPDATE:
Not sure if this will work... requestContext.HttpContext seems to be "readonly". Back to the drawing board.
UPDATE 2:
Looks like this will work if you add in a reference to System.Web.Abstractions
Started mucking around with things and saw the IHttpHandler interface provides the RequestContext to the GetHttpHandler method.
So, I modified my base page class (I always put a layer between System.Web.UI.Page and my own pages, calling it BasePage or similar just for the purpose). So I added a public property on PVBasePage to receive a RequestContext object.
public RequestContext RequestContext { get; set; }
Then, my Routing class code is as follows:
IHttpHandler IRouteHandler.GetHttpHandler(RequestContext requestContext)
{
// create the page object as my own page...
var page = BuildManager.CreateInstanceFromVirtualPath(VirtualPath
, typeof(PVBasePage)) as PVBasePage;
// pass in the request context
page.RequestContext = requestContext;
// return this page in the form of a IHttpHandler
return page as IHttpHandler;
}
So instead of, as in the sample code, creating the instance directly as the IHttpHandler, I create it as my own page. Set the request context property, and then return the page to the caller AS a IHttpHandler.
Tested and it works. WOO HOO!
Then in the instance page, you can hit the RequestContext.GetValues collection to read out your passed in parameters.
HTH
#B.Tyndall
I just got this working with a solution similar to yours.
found at: http://msmvps.com/blogs/luisabreu/archive/2008/03/12/using-the-routing-mvc-api-with-classic-asp-net.aspx
foreach (var aux in requestContext.RouteData.Values)
{
HttpContext.Current.Items[aux.Key] = aux.Value;
}
So in effect you're no longer using the Request.QueryString but instead Context.Items collection
HttpContext.Current.Items["RouteName"]
or
Context.Items["RouteName"]
It appears as though other are also taking the route (no pun intended) of putting the parameters in the context Items collection.
http://bbits.co.uk/blog/archive/2008/05/19/using-asp.net-routing-independent-of-mvc---passing-parameters-to.aspx
I combined a couple of these approaches for pages that have a specific parameter, I created a UserNameRouteHandler for pages that accept that type of parameter. In my PageBase class I checked the context items for that parameter and then set a property so that my pages that inherit from PageBase can use it.
public class UserNameRouteHandler : IRouteHandler
{
#region Implementation of IRouteHandler
public IHttpHandler GetHttpHandler(RequestContext requestContext)
{
string pageName = requestContext.RouteData.GetRequiredString("PageName");
string employeeUserName = requestContext.RouteData.GetRequiredString("UserName");
if(!string.IsNullOrEmpty(employeeUserName))
{
requestContext.HttpContext.Items["UserName"] = employeeUserName;
}
pageName = pageName.ToLower() == "home" ? "default" : pageName;
string virtualPath = string.Format("~/{0}.aspx", pageName);
return (Page)BuildManager.CreateInstanceFromVirtualPath(virtualPath, typeof(Page));
}
#endregion
}
And in my OnLoad of PageBase I set the property to pages that need it can have it...definitely looking for a more elegant solution though.
protected override void OnLoad(EventArgs e)
{
if (!IsPostBack)
{
if (Context.Items["UserName"] != null)
{
EmployeeUserName = Context.Items["UserName"].ToString();
}
}
base.OnLoad(e);
}