Restful Routing for ASP .NET MVC

Inspired by the rails routing api

Features

• Nested Resources
• Shallow Nesting
• Singular Resources
• Adding Custom Actions
• Form Helper

Nested Resources

var map = new RestfulRouteMapper(RouteTable.Routes);

map.Resources<BlogsController>(x =>
{
	x.Resources<PostsController>(m =>
	{
		m.Resources<CommentsController>();
	});
});

This will give you these routes

Url	Default Controller	Default Action	Constraints
blogs	blogs	index	GET
blogs	blogs	create	POST
blogs/new	blogs	new	GET
blogs/{id}/{action}	blogs	show	GET, action = show,edit,delete
blogs/{id}	blogs	update	PUT
blogs/{id}	blogs	destroy	DELETE
blogs/{blogId}/posts	posts	index	GET
blogs/{blogId}/posts	posts	create	POST
blogs/{blogId}/posts/new	posts	new	GET
blogs/{blogId}/posts/{id}/{action}	posts	show	GET, action = show,edit,delete
blogs/{blogId}/posts/{id}	posts	update	PUT
blogs/{blogId}/posts/{id}	posts	destroy	DELETE
blogs/{blogId}/posts/{postId}/comments	comments	index	GET
blogs/{blogId}/posts/{postId}/comments	comments	create	POST
blogs/{blogId}/posts/{postId}/comments/new	comments	new	GET
blogs/{blogId}/posts/{postId}/comments/{id}/{action}	comments	show	GET, action = show,edit,delete
blogs/{blogId}/posts/{postId}/comments/{id}	comments	update	PUT
blogs/{blogId}/posts/{postId}/comments/{id}	comments	destroy	DELETE

Shallow Nesting

Shallow nesting allows you to define nested resources but not have deeply nested urls.

var map = new RestfulRouteMapper(RouteTable.Routes);

map.Resources<BlogsController>(config => config.Shallow = true, blogs =>
{
	blogs.Resources<PostsController>(posts =>
	{
		posts.Resources<CommentsController>();
	});
});

This will give you routes like these

Url	Default Controller	Default Action	Constraints
blogs	blogs	index	GET
blogs	blogs	create	POST
blogs/new	blogs	new	GET
blogs/{id}/{action}	blogs	show	GET, action = show,edit,delete
blogs/{id}	blogs	update	PUT
blogs/{id}	blogs	destroy	DELETE
blogs/{blogId}/posts	posts	index	GET
posts	posts	index	GET
posts	posts	index	GET
posts	posts	create	POST
posts/new	posts	new	GET
posts/{id}/{action}	posts	show	GET, action = show,edit,delete
posts/{id}	posts	update	PUT
posts/{id}	posts	destroy	DELETE
posts/{postId}/comments	comments	index	GET
comments	comments	index	GET
comments	comments	create	POST
comments/new	comments	new	GET
comments/{id}/{action}	comments	show	GET, action = show,edit,delete
comments/{id}	comments	update	PUT
comments/{id}	comments	destroy	DELETE

Singular Resources

var map = new RestfulRouteMapper(RouteTable.Routes);

map.Resource<SessionController>();

Url	Default Controller	Default Action	Constraints
session	session	create	POST
session/new	session	new	GET
session/{action}	session	show	GET, action = show,edit,delete
session	session	update	PUT
session	session	destroy	DELETE
session	session	show	GET

More Information

The tests describe the different ways you can use this. See the included sample project to see it in action.