ASP.NET MVC Preview 3 also supports a bunch of new URL route
mapping features. You can now include "-", ".",
";" or any other characters you want as part of your route rules.
For example, using a "-" separator you can now
parse the language and locale values from your URLs separately using a rule
like below:
Figure 17
This would pass appropriate "language",
"locale", and "category" parameters to a
ProductsController.Browse action method when invoked:
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URL Route Rule
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Example URL
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Parameters Passed to Action method
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{language}-{locale}/products/browse/{category}
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/en-us/products/browse/food
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language=en, locale=us, category=food
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/en-uk/products/browse/food
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language=en, locale=uk, category=food
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Or you can use the "." file extension type at the
end of a URL to determine whether to render back the result in either a XML or
HTML format:
Figure 18
This would pass both "category" and a
"format" parameters to the ProductsController.Browse action method
when invoked:
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URL Route Rule
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Example URL
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Parameters Passed to Action method
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products/browse/{category}.{format}
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/products/browse/food.xml
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category=food, format=xml
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/products/browse/food.html
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category=food, format=html
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ASP.NET MVC Preview 3 also supports wildcard route rules
(these were also in Preview 2). For example, you can indicate in a rule
to pass all remaining URI content on as a named parameter to an action method:
Figure 19
This would pass a "contentUrl" parameter to the
WikiController.DisplayPage action method when invoked:
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URL Route Rule
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Example URL
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Parameters Passed to Action method
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Wiki/Pages/{*contentUrl}
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/Wiki/Pages/People/Scott
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contentUrl="People/Scott"
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/Wiki/Pages/Countries/UK
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contentUrl="Countries/UK"
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These wildcard routes are very useful to look at if you are
building a blogging, wiki, cms or other content based system.
