Url rewriting in mvc (add a field from database in url)

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Currently my page url is like that
www.something.com/Controller/ActionName/Id
but what i need is when someone types this url it should redirect to www.something.com/Controller/ActionName/Id/Name

what currently I am doing is

C#

[HttpGet]
public ActionResult Details(int id)
        {
            if (id == null)
            {
                return new HttpStatusCodeResult(HttpStatusCode.BadRequest);
            }
            Project project = new Project();
            project = GetProjectFromDatabase(Id);
            string name = project.Name;
            name = name.Replace(" ", "-");

            return Redirect("/Project/Details/"+id+"/"+project+"/"+name);//Problem at this line
i want here to redirect to second action
        }
     //and there is another controller with same name 
public ActionResult Details(int id, Project project, string name = "")
        {
            return View("~/Views/Project/_Details.cshtml", project);
        }
 but when i am redirecting to another controller with same name, it redirects to itself

Can someone help me
-Thanks

Posted 18-Sep-14 22:53pm

Vishal Pand3y

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Nathan Minier 19-Sep-14 8:24am

I'm guessing it's because your RouteConfig looks like "{controller}/{action}/{id}", so it is ignoring the project and name terms.
You could try RedirectToAction("Details",/*Controller*/, new { project = project });
(You can get name from project.name, making that assignment redundant)

You can also store variables in TempData if you are using redirects, which is how I would suggest proceeding. The tempdata will last for exactly one redirect.

TempData["Project"] = GetProjectfromDatabase(Id);
return RedirectToAction("Details", /*Controller*/);

Vishal Pand3y 22-Sep-14 7:28am

problem of lazy loading with temp data

Nathan Minier 22-Sep-14 8:06am

You should only have that issue if you haven't forced the IQueryable to process yet, so a .ToList(), .First() or .Single() should fix that.

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Suraj Sahoo | Coding Passion · Answer 1 · 2014-09-19T02:46:00

Solution 1

place it like this :-

C#

"/Project/Details/"+id+"/"+project+"/?name="+name

This is not the default value as Id is, so route config would be expecting a value there.
else try :

C#

return RedirectToAction( action = "Details",controller = controllerName, new{id=id,project=project,name=name})

Posted 19-Sep-14 2:46am

Suraj Sahoo | Coding Passion

Updated 19-Sep-14 3:51am

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Nathan Minier 19-Sep-14 9:37am

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd505283%28v=vs.118%29.aspx

Check your parameters against the documentation please.

[no name] 19-Sep-14 9:50am

thanks sorry for that