I have no idea why you'd want this, but you could write your own UrlProvider implementation to just generate id's as url's. I don't think you need a IContentProvider to get page based on id, should already be in core.

Here's a good article to get you started

Cheers, Dirk

Dirk

many thanks for your reply.

Our site is like Hogwarts - pages in the site move around constantly.

We had a situation where over the space of a couple of years, our bookmarked content was generating page not found errors. We found the best approach was to use the page ID, and URL forwarding helped in those situations where we needed something more marketable and user friendly.

Thanks, Maurice.

Hi MuirisOG

Sounds like a better approach would be to use the 301 url tracker or simple url tracker packages, which makes sure that when the page is moved a 301 redirect to the new location is made, which means that bookmarked pages will be redirected to the new location as well.

https://our.umbraco.org/projects/developer-tools/301-url-tracker or https://our.umbraco.org/projects/backoffice-extensions/simple-301/ (Not sure whether this package auto maps things) - Or you could roll your own perhaps.

Just my 2 cents on a better approach.

/Jan

Thanks Jan,

that's an excellent idea, and many thanks for the links.

In answer to my own question, and for completeness, one really simple solution is to rewrite menus to output the id instead of the (nice)url.

Thanks again.

You can also create your custom UrlSegmentProvider. This is the part that renders each url for each node or segment.

public class MyProvider : IUrlSegmentProvider
{
  readonly IUrlSegmentProvider _provider = new DefaultUrlSegmentProvider();

  public string GetUrlSegment(IContentBase content)
  {
    if (content.ContentTypeId != 1234) return null;
    var segment = _provider.GetUrlSegment(content);
    return string.Format("{0}", content.Id);
  }
}

More information about this can be found here:

https://our.umbraco.org/documentation/Reference/Routing/Request-Pipeline/outbound-pipeline

/Michael

I've been trying to implement my own custom iUrlProvider and, although everything is working on the published site, I'm getting the following error in the backoffice. Do I need an iContentProvider to go with the iUrlProvider?

Any help would be appreciated.

An error occured

Mapping types: Content -> String[] Umbraco.Core.Models.Content -> System.String[] Destination path: ContentItemDisplay.Urls.Urls Source value: Umbraco.Core.Models.Content


Exception Details 
AutoMapper.AutoMapperMappingException: Mapping types: Content -> String[] Umbraco.Core.Models.Content -> System.String[] Destination path: ContentItemDisplay.Urls.Urls Source value: Umbraco.Core.Models.Content 

Stacktrace 
at Umbraco.Web.Editors.ContentController.GetById(Int32 id)
   at lambda_method(Closure , Object , Object[] )
   at System.Web.Http.Controllers.ReflectedHttpActionDescriptor.ActionExecutor.<>c__DisplayClass10.<GetExecutor>b__9(Object instance, Object[] methodParameters)
   at System.Web.Http.Controllers.ReflectedHttpActionDescriptor.ActionExecutor.Execute(Object instance, Object[] arguments)
   at System.Web.Http.Controllers.ReflectedHttpActionDescriptor.ExecuteAsync(HttpControllerContext controllerContext, IDictionary`2 arguments, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---
   at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.ThrowForNonSuccess(Task task)
   at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)
   at System.Web.Http.Controllers.ApiControllerActionInvoker.<InvokeActionAsyncCore>d__0.MoveNext()

and there's this:

System.UriFormatException: Invalid URI: Invalid port specified.
at System.Uri.CreateThis(String uri, Boolean dontEscape, UriKind uriKind)
   at System.Uri..ctor(String uriString)
   at Umbraco.Core.UriExtensions.MakeAbsolute(Uri uri, Uri baseUri)
   at Umbraco.Web.Routing.UrlProviderExtensions.GetContentUrls(IContent content, UmbracoContext umbracoContext)
   at lambda_method(Closure , IContent )
   at AutoMapper.DelegateBasedResolver`2.Resolve(ResolutionResult source) in c:\dev\AutoMapper\src\AutoMapper\Internal\DelegateBasedResolver2.cs:line 22
   at AutoMapper.NullReferenceExceptionSwallowingResolver.Resolve(ResolutionResult source) in c:\dev\AutoMapper\src\AutoMapper\Internal\NullReferenceExceptionSwallowingResolver.cs:line 18
   at AutoMapper.PropertyMap.<ResolveValue>b__6(ResolutionResult current, IValueResolver resolver) in c:\dev\AutoMapper\src\AutoMapper\PropertyMap.cs:line 127
   at System.Linq.Enumerable.Aggregate[TSource,TAccumulate](IEnumerable`1 source, TAccumulate seed, Func`3 func)
   at AutoMapper.PropertyMap.ResolveValue(ResolutionContext context) in c:\dev\AutoMapper\src\AutoMapper\PropertyMap.cs:line 127
   at AutoMapper.Mappers.TypeMapObjectMapperRegistry.PropertyMapMappingStrategy.MapPropertyValue(ResolutionContext context, IMappingEngineRunner mapper, Object mappedObject, PropertyMap propertyMap) in c:\dev\AutoMapper\src\AutoMapper\Mappers\TypeMapObjectMapperRegistry.cs:line 116

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