ServiceStack razor default page

Question

Say I have 2 pages

1. /NotADefault.cshtml

2. /Views/Default.cshtml

Question 1.

Now I run it, page A always gets called implicitly as start-up default page no matter what I name it.
Page B will only be called when I explicitly call localhost/View/Default. How do I make page B (the one in View folder) my default page?

Question 2.

I also have NotADefaultService.cs and DefaultService.cs. I give each page a Service class at the back. However, when page A is called NotADefaultService.cs never gets called. Only DefaultService.cs gets called when page B is called...

My observation is that only the pages in the View folder will get their back-end service class working. Outside of View folder it doesn't work.

Combining Q1 and Q2.

How do I:

Option 1. get the backend service class working under / root outside "View" folder?

OR

Option 2. appoint /View/Default.schtml as my default at start-up where the service class can be hit?

Answer 1

In ServiceStack:

• Razor Pages that exist within the /Views/ folder are called View Pages
• Razor Pages that exist anywhere else are called Content Pages

The difference between them is that View Pages are Razor views that are used to provide the HTML representations (aka views) for services in much the same way View Pages work for MVC Controllers.

View Pages cannot be called directly, that's the role of Content Pages, which can only be called directly, i.e. outside the context of a service (or redirected to, from a service).

In Razor Rockstars, examples of Content Pages include:

• /stars/dead/cobain/ which calls the /stars/dead/Cobain/default.cshtml Content Page
• /TypedModelNoController which calls the /TypedModelNoController.cshtml Content Page

Whereas examples of View Pages include:

• /rockstars which matches the /rockstars route on the /RockstarsService.cs and because of the [DefaultView("Rockstars")] attribute, uses the /Rockstars.cshtml View Page

Default Pages

For Content Pages the default.cshtml is the index page for a folder. So to set a default page for the root / path, create a /default.cshtml page. An example of this is /default.cshtml home page used in the Reusability demo.

If you want to use a view page as the Home page, you can set the default redirect to it by adding the AppHost config:

SetConfig(new HostConfig { 
   DefaultRedirectPath = "/home"
});

Which would call a service matching the /home route that will use the most appropriate View Page based on the rules laid out in the Razor Rockstars page.