Friendly URLs for ASP.NET

Question

Python frameworks always provide ways to handle URLs that convey the data of the request in an elegant way, like for example http://somewhere.overtherainbow.com/userid/12342

Answer 1

Here's another way of doing it using ASP.NET MVC

First off, here's the controller code with two actions. Index gets a list of users from the model, userid gets an individual user:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Mvc;
using System.Web.Mvc.Ajax;

namespace MvcApplication1.Controllers
{
    public class UsersController : Controller
    {
        public ActionResult Index()
        {
            return View(Models.UserDB.GetUsers());
        }
        public ActionResult userid(int id)
        {
            return View(Models.UserDB.GetUser(id));
        }
    }
}

Here's the Index.asp view, it uses an ActionLink to create links in the correct format:

<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="Index.aspx.cs" Inherits="MvcApplication1.Views.Index" %>
<%@ Import Namespace="MvcApplication1.Controllers" %>
<%@ Import Namespace="MvcApplication1.Models" %>





    


    

    
Index of Users
           

            <% foreach (User user in (IEnumerable)ViewData.Model) { %>
                 

                       <%= Html.ActionLink(user.name, "userid", new {id = user.id })%>
                 
            <% } %>
           
    

And here's the userid.aspx view which displays an individual's details:

<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="userid.aspx.cs" Inherits="MvcApplication1.Views.Users.userid" %>
<%@ Import Namespace="MvcApplication1.Controllers" %>
<%@ Import Namespace="MvcApplication1.Models" %>




    


    

        

            

                

                ID
                
                

                <%=((User)ViewData.Model).id %>
                
            
            

                

                Name
                
                

                <%=((User)ViewData.Model).name %>
                
            
        
    

And finally for completeness, here's the model code:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;

namespace MvcApplication1.Models
{
    public class UserDB
    {
        private static List users = new List{
            new User(){id=12345, name="Bill"},
            new User(){id=12346, name="Claire"},
            new User(){id=12347, name="David"}
        };

        public static List GetUsers()
        {
            return users;
        }

        public static User GetUser(int id)
        {
            return users.First(user => user.id == id);
        }

    }

    public class User
    {
        public int id { get; set; }
        public string name { get; set; }
    }
}