As a followup of this question, I'm trying to implement a custom route constraint in order to dynamically modify the RouteValueDictionary
for a specific route.
I'm 95% of the way there: I can match any route based on the supplied parameter pattern matching the action specified in the url. The very last step of this process is to overwrite the RouteValueDictionary to rename the keys as the appropriate parameters for the controller action.
Here's the relevant snippet of my code (the entire class is almost 300 lines so I don't want to add all of it, but I can if needed):
public class CustomRouteConstraint : IRouteConstraint
{
public bool Match(HttpContextBase httpContext, Route route, string paramName, RouteValueDictionary values, RouteDirection routeDirection)
{
if (routeDirection.Equals(RouteDirection.UrlGeneration)) {
return false;
}
//this will grab all of the "actual" parameters out of the RVD, excluding action and controller
Dictionary<string, object> unMappedList = values.Where(x => x.Key.Contains("param")).OrderBy(xi => xi.Key).ToDictionary(
kvp => kvp.Key, kvp => kvp.Value);
string controller = values["controller"] as string;
string action = values["action"] as string;
//this method tries to find the controller using reflection
Type cont = TryFindController(controller);
if (cont != null) {
MethodInfo actionMethod = cont.GetMethod(action);
if (actionMethod != null) {
ParameterInfo[] methodParameters = actionMethod.GetParameters();
//this method validates that the parameters of the action that was found match the expected parameters passed in the custom constraint; it also performs type conversion
if (validateParameters(methodParameters, unMappedList)) {
for (int i = 0; i < methodParameters.Length; i++) {
values.First(x => x.Key == unMappedList.ElementAt(i).Key).Key = methodParameters.ElementAt(i).Name;
//above doesn't work, but even if it did it wouldn't do the right thing
return true;
}
}
}
}
return false;
}
}
And here's how I use the custom constraint:
routes.MapRoute(
name: "Default2",
url: "{controller}/{action}/{param1}-{param2}",
defaults: new { controller = "Admin", action = "Index" },
constraints: new { lang = new CustomRouteConstraint(new RoutePatternCollection( new List<ParamType> { ParamType.INT, ParamType.INT })) }
);
(What I'm passing into the constructor is basically saying "The parameter pattern to look for is two integers". So when the Match
method is called, it will return true if the action specified in the url has two two integer parameters, regardless of the actual parameter names.)
So, is there a way I can overwrite the RouteValueDictionary for this request? Or is there some other way I can do this that I'm missing?