How can I get controller type and action info from a url or from route data?
- by Rob Levine
How can I get the controller action (method) and controller type that will be called, given the System.Web.Routing.RouteData?
My scenario is this - I want to be able to do perform certain actions (or not) in the OnActionExecuting method for an action.
However, I will often want to know not the current action, but the "root" action being called; by this I mean I may have a view called "Login", which is my login page. This view may include
another partial view "LeftNav". When OnActionExecuting is called for LeftNav, I want to be able to determine that it is really being called for the "root" aciton of Login.
I realise that by calling RouteTable.Routes.GetRouteData(actionExecutingContext.HttpContext), I can get the route for the "root" request, but how to turn this into
method and type info?
The only solution I have so far, is something like:
var routeData = RouteTable.Routes.GetRouteData(actionExecutingContext.HttpContext)
var routeController = (string)routeData.Values["controller"];
var routeAction = (string)routeData.Values["action"];
The problem with this is that "routeController" is the controller name with the "Controller" suffix removed, and is not fully qualified; ie it is "Login", rather than "MyCode.Website.LoginController".
I would far rather get an actual Type and MethodInfo if possible, or at least a fully qualified type name.
Any thoughts, or alternative approaches?
[EDIT - this is ASP.Net MVC 1.0]
