@Html.ActionLink and Angularjs value?

Question

Hey i'm currently workin on a project that has implemented angularjs, i was wondering if there is a way around to use angular value in Html Helper?

This is what I can't get to work:

@Html.ActionLink("Edit", "Edit", new { id = {{row.Id}} })

How do you use the value in razor syntax?

Answer 1

You can use ng-href and Url.Content as following

<a ng-href="@Url.Content("~/Home/Edit/"){{row.Id}}">Edit</a>

Answer 2

I found simple solution!

<a data-ng-href="@Url.Action("Edit", "Home")/{{row.Id}}" target="_self">Edit  </a>

But thanks for the respone, it got me a down the road to success!

Answer 3

Some of these answers provided here may have worked in 2014 but with newer releases of MVC, as of 2017 the routes do not work as expected or you may be be using [RoutingAttrbiutes] which allow you to easily adjust route names and parameters.

Based on all these answers here, ShaqCode and ByteBlocks I built a UrlHelper extension that help us make our lives a little bit easier now.

If you include this in the global namespace you do not need to import anything and you can just use it as follows'

<a ng-href="@Url.AngularActionLink("create", "purchaseorder", "supplierId", "{{supplier.Id}}")">Create</a>

And the extension class is as follows

public static class AngularUrlHelper
{
    public static List<string> RawRouteUrl;

    public static string AngularActionLink(this UrlHelper html, string actionName, string controller, string routeValue, string angularBinder)
    {
        var actionUrl = string.Empty;

        if (RawRouteUrl == null)
            RawRouteUrl = new List<string>();

        var routeQuery = $"{actionName}/{{{routeValue}}}";

        var rawRoute = RawRouteUrl.FirstOrDefault(x => x.Contains(routeQuery));

        if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(rawRoute))
        {
        RawRouteUrl.Clear();

            foreach (var r in RouteTable.Routes)
            {
                try
                {
                    RawRouteUrl.Add(((Route)r).Url);
                }
                catch (System.Exception) { }
            }

            rawRoute = RawRouteUrl.FirstOrDefault(x => x.Contains(routeQuery));
        }

        if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(rawRoute))
        {
            actionUrl = rawRoute.Replace($"{{{routeValue}}}", angularBinder);
        }

        return actionUrl;
    }
}

And the result HTML will be angular ready.

<a ng-href="/create/purchaseorder/{{supplier.Id}}">Create</a>

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Some more info.

I used a static list to make a really simple caching system per Application Pool. URL's will not really change unless you publish but they can change if you edit the .chstml file directly on the server.

So to accommodate a cache refresh, if the expected url query is not found it will attempt to rebuild the route string list.

The reason I did this cache thing is to avoid iterating constantly over the RouteTable.Routes - I tried to find a way to easily just get the string URL values from the RouteCollection - But for some reason it is practically impossible!? So hence.. this extension.

Answer 4

The problem with using ActionLink is that this method calls UrlPathEncode when creating URL. What this means is that razor directive {{}} with get encoded. Angular will not be able to evaluate it. What you will have to do is create this URL separately and then decode it. For example I have something like in one of the pages for our project.

@{
var url = Url.Action("Index", "Home", new{id="{{id=lastLatency}}"});
url = HttpUtility.UrlDecode(url);
}

<a data-ng-href="@url">Home</a>

It is very important that you use ng-href attribute to set the URL.