Asp.Net Mvc Uniq Routing - asp.net

Question

I am creating a site which is personel blog. I want to give a specific routing when I enter a new blog in admin panel. Normally when I save it matches the database id. I do not have access to static routing anyway.
I want the link parameter to be stored in the database when the blog is being entered via the routing
Default : localhost/ControlName/ActionName/id (localhost/Blog/GetBlogs/2)
bu I want that
Wanted : localhost/ControlName/ActionName/storedValue(localhost/Blog/GetBlog/bluesky)
or
localhost/storedValue(localhost/bluesky)

Answer 1

What you're talking about is a slug. You just have to add a property on your blog class to hold some unique string value that will compose part of the URL. For example:
[Index]
[StringLength(80)]
public string Slug { get; set; }
Then, when creating the blog, you either manually specify the value for Slug (make it a field in the form) or compose it by "slugifying" the title of the blog or something. I use the following string extensions:
public static string RemoveDiacritics(this string s)
{
s = s ?? string.Empty;
if (s.Length > 0)
{
char[] chars = new char[s.Length];
int charIndex = 0;
s = s.Normalize(NormalizationForm.FormD);
for (int i = 0; i < s.Length; i++)
{
char c = s[i];
if (CharUnicodeInfo.GetUnicodeCategory(c) != UnicodeCategory.NonSpacingMark)
chars[charIndex++] = c;
}
return new string(chars, 0, charIndex).Normalize(NormalizationForm.FormC);
}
return s;
}
public static string Slugify(this string s, int maxLength = 80)
{
s = s ?? string.Empty;
//First to lower case
s = s.ToLowerInvariant().RemoveDiacritics();
//Replace spaces
s = Regex.Replace(s, #"\s", "-", RegexOptions.Compiled);
//Remove invalid chars
s = Regex.Replace(s, #"[^a-z0-9s\-_]", "", RegexOptions.Compiled);
//Trim dashes from end
s = s.Trim('-', '_');
//Replace double occurences of - or _
s = Regex.Replace(s, #"([\-_]){2,}", "$1", RegexOptions.Compiled);
while (s.Length > maxLength)
{
var pieces = s.Split('-');
pieces = pieces.Take(pieces.Count() - 1).ToArray();
s = string.Join("-", pieces);
}
return s;
}
Then, for example, you could do something like:
blog.Slug = blog.Title.Slugify();
However you create the slug, you'll then use the URL param to look up the blog by that:
public ActionResult GetBlog(string slug)
{
var blog = db.Blogs.SingleOrDefault(m => m.Slug == slug);
This is why the Slug property is decorated with [Index] above. That makes EF create an index for the column when it creates the table/adds the column. Any column you intend to query on should be indexed for performance reasons. Also, you have to define a set length for the column, as NVARCHAR(MAX) (the default column type for a string) cannot be indexed.