How do I get the Controller and Action names from the Referrer Uri?

Question

There\'s a lot of information for building Uris from Controller and Action names, but how can I do this the other way around?

Basically, all I\'m trying to achieve i

Answer 1

To add to gdoran's accepted answer, I found that the action doesn't get populated if a custom route attribute is used. The following works for me:

public static void SetUpReferrerRouteVariables(HttpRequestBase httpRequestBase, ref string previousAreaName, ref string previousControllerName, ref string previousActionName)
{
    // No referrer found, perhaps page accessed directly, just return.
    if (httpRequestBase.UrlReferrer == null) return;

    // Split the url to url + QueryString.
    var fullUrl = httpRequestBase.UrlReferrer.ToString();
    var questionMarkIndex = fullUrl.IndexOf('?');
    string queryString = null;
    var url = fullUrl;
    if (questionMarkIndex != -1) // There is a QueryString
    {
        url = fullUrl.Substring(0, questionMarkIndex);
        queryString = fullUrl.Substring(questionMarkIndex + 1);
    }

    // Arrange.
    var request = new HttpRequest(null, url, queryString);
    var response = new HttpResponse(new StringWriter());
    var httpContext = new HttpContext(request, response);

    var routeData = RouteTable.Routes.GetRouteData(new HttpContextWrapper(httpContext));
    if (routeData == null) throw new AuthenticationRedirectToReferrerDataNotFoundException();

    // Extract the data.
    var previousValues = routeData.Values;
    previousAreaName = previousValues["area"] == null ? string.Empty : previousValues["area"].ToString();
    previousControllerName = previousValues["controller"] == null ? string.Empty : previousValues["controller"].ToString();
    previousActionName = previousValues["action"] == null ? string.Empty : previousValues["action"].ToString();
    if (previousActionName != string.Empty) return;
    var routeDataAsListFromMsDirectRouteMatches = (List)previousValues["MS_DirectRouteMatches"];
    var routeValueDictionaryFromMsDirectRouteMatches = routeDataAsListFromMsDirectRouteMatches.FirstOrDefault();
    if (routeValueDictionaryFromMsDirectRouteMatches == null) return;
    previousActionName = routeValueDictionaryFromMsDirectRouteMatches.Values["action"].ToString();
    if (previousActionName == "") previousActionName = "Index";
}