So I have this custom route, which sets up the route table based on culture in the URL, but when I call Url.Action(...), it does not generate the localized URL. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? The culture is changing on the page and I am able to determine what language user has selected, but Url.Action is not generating localized URL..
This is the custom route, which changes the route table values (not sure if this standard way of doing it):
public class CultureRoute : Route
{
public CultureRoute(string url, object defaults, object contraints)
: base(url, new MvcRouteHandler())
{
base.Defaults = CreateRouteValueDictionary(defaults);
base.Constraints = CreateRouteValueDictionary(contraints);
}
public override RouteData GetRouteData(HttpContextBase httpContext)
{
var routeData = base.GetRouteData(httpContext);
if (routeData != null)
{
var culture = routeData.Values["culture"].ToString();
var cookie = httpContext.Request.Cookies["culture"];
var areEqual = false;
if (cookie == null || cookie.Value == "" || !(areEqual = string.Equals(culture, cookie.Value, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase)))
{
routeData.Values["culture"] = culture;
httpContext.Response.Cookies.Add(new HttpCookie("culture", culture));
}
else if (!areEqual)
{
routeData.Values["culture"] = cookie.Value;
}
CultureHelper.SetCurrentCulture(culture);
}
return routeData;
}
private static RouteValueDictionary CreateRouteValueDictionary(object values)
{
var dictionary = values as IDictionary<string, object>;
if (dictionary != null)
{
return new RouteValueDictionary(dictionary);
}
else
{
return new RouteValueDictionary(values);
}
}
}
and this helper class to set the thread culture:
public class CultureHelper
{
public static void SetCurrentCulture(string culture)
{
var info = CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture(culture);
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = info;
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = info;
}
public static string GetCurrentCulture(bool ignoreRouteData = false)
{
if (!ignoreRouteData)
{
var routeData = HttpContext.Current.Request.RequestContext.RouteData;
object culture;
if (routeData.Values.TryGetValue("culture", out culture))
{
return culture.ToString();
}
}
var cookie = HttpContext.Current.Request.Cookies["culture"];
if (cookie != null && cookie.Value != null)
{
return cookie.Value;
}
return GetThreadCulture();
}
public static string GetThreadCulture()
{
var culture = Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture.Name;
if (culture.IndexOf('-') > -1)
{
culture = culture.Substring(0, 2);
}
return culture;
}
}
and also the RouteConfig class, which is called from the Global.asax and sets up routes using my custom route class:
public class RouteConfig
{
public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
{
routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");
routes.Add("Partial", new CultureRoute(
"{culture}/{cotroller}/partial/{view}",
new { culture = "ka", controller = "home", action = "partial", view = "" },
new { culture = "(ka|en)" }));
routes.Add("Default", new CultureRoute(
"{culture}/{controller}/{action}/{id}",
new { culture = "ka", controller = "home", action = "index", id = UrlParameter.Optional },
new { culture = "(ka|en)" }));
}
}
but without this extension method, I am not able to generate culture based route i.e. Url.Action does not generate URL based on route table the custom route class creates:
public static string Action2(this UrlHelper helper, string action)
{
var culture = CultureHelper.GetThreadCulture();
return helper.Action(action, new { culture = culture });
}