Confirm that a route is in use in ASP.NET MVC

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I am wanting to do customer routes for users where they get to pick their url name.

Can I validate that the name they input isn't already registered in our routes? Like if someone typed "about", http://example.com/about, I could tell them that name is already in use because we have an About page.

Oved D · Answer 1 · 2012-02-16T17:14:11.690

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You should use a greedy route for the user defined routes. The route registration would look like:

routes.MapRoute("customCustomerRoute",
                "{*customerName}", 
                new { controller = "Customer", action = "Home" }
        );

and should go at the end of your routes, so that it doesn't get eat up other routes.

You can then have the customer name paths stored in a db, and look up that path before the user wants to create a new one.

You could get all possible existing routes with the following code:

var routes = new RouteCollection();
MvcApplication.RegisterRoutes(routes);

Then, you could see if those routes contain the url to be registered.

edited Feb 16 '12 at 17:14

answered Feb 16 '12 at 17:07

Oved D

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But if I want to check that the route "/about" isn't in use, that wouldnt be in the DB, it would be in the Global.asax. – Mike Flynn Feb 16 '12 at 17:09
That just registers the routes? – Mike Flynn Feb 16 '12 at 18:35
It registers them in that route collection. Then you could iterate through that route collection and see if that url already exists. – Oved D Feb 16 '12 at 19:39
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4882324/how-can-i-check-if-a-route-asp-net-mvc-exists-for-a-given-path – Mike Flynn Feb 16 '12 at 23:04

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 16 '12 at 17:10

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I would place all the customer routes in a 'folder', ie. http://example.com/account/customer-name. No conflicts there.

Or place all other 'hardcoded' controllers in an area and prohibit this one for client use.

answered Feb 16 '12 at 17:10

Jakub Konecki

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Confirm that a route is in use in ASP.NET MVC

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