Asp.net Core Razor Pages Access Constant Route Value

Question

Within the Asp.net Core 3.x Razor Pages web site, I need to set multiple predefined constant route names pointing to the single page and then access them on the particular cshtml.cs PageModel.

options.Conventions.AddPageRoute("/propertylist", "/properties/category1");
options.Conventions.AddPageRoute("/propertylist", "/properties/category2");
options.Conventions.AddPageRoute("/propertylist", "/properties/category3");
// I don't want any other categories to reach to the propertylist page so I didn't set it as '/properties/{categoryName}'

And then inside the PropertyList.cshtml.cs, I need to know what category was used as the route data

public async Task OnGet()
{
     // Get the route data to find the category name
}

Melih Melih · Accepted Answer · 2020-05-09T14:08:17

I have come up with this solution. First I've created a route constraint.

public class PropertyListRouteConstraint : IRouteConstraint
    {
        private string[] categories = new[] {
            Constants.Routes.Categories.Category1,
            Constants.Routes.Categories.Category2,
            Constants.Routes.Categories.Category3
        };
        public bool Match(HttpContext httpContext, IRouter route, string routeKey, RouteValueDictionary values, RouteDirection routeDirection)
        {
            return categories.Contains(values[routeKey]);
        }
    }

Then in Startup.cs, I removed the previous route names and added this

services.Configure<RouteOptions>(options =>
{
     options.ConstraintMap.Add("allowedpropertycats", typeof(PropertyListRouteConstraint));
});

In PropertyList.cshtml

@page "/properties/{categoryname:allowedpropertycats}"

In PropertyList.cshtml.cs

public class PropertyListModel : PageModel
    {        
        [BindProperty(SupportsGet = true)]
        public string CategoryName { get; set; }

        public async Task OnGet()
        {
           ...
        }
    }

So CategoryName contains the value.

Asp.net Core Razor Pages Access Constant Route Value

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