Multiple routes assigned to one method, how to determine which route was called?

Question

I am working on a small ASP.NET MVC project at the moment. The project was released a few month ago. But changes should be implemented for usability and SEO reasons now. I d

Answer 1

You can look at ControllerContext.RouteData to figure out which route they used when using multiple routes for one action.

public const string MultiARoute = "multiA/{routesuffix}";
public const string MultiBRoute = "multiB/subB/{routesuffix}";

[Route(MultiARoute)]
[Route(MultiBRoute)]
public ActionResult MultiRoute(string routeSuffix)
{

   var route = this.ControllerContext.RouteData.Route as Route;
   string whatAmI = string.Empty;

   if (route.Url == MultiARoute)
   {
      whatAmI = "A";
   }
   else
   {
      whatAmI = "B";
   }
   return View();
}