Why is it so hard to get route values outside controller context?

Question

I don\'t understand what\'s the deal behind this, why is it so easy to get route values inside Request of controller but nearly impossible to do the same thing on <

Answer 1

Try the code below to get the route data:

var routeValues = Request.GetRouteData().Values["MS_SubRoutes"];

Note:

The type of Request is System.Net.Http.HttpRequestMessage. It is a property of class System.Web.Http.ApiController, or you can get it from eleswhere.

GetRouteData is an extension method in class System.Net.Http.HttpRequestMessageExtensions.