I'm putting together a small demo but I've gone in circles trying to figure this out.
Let's say I have Umbraco content nodes setup and working for an e-commerce site. There's a store root node, with a category, and a product node. And all these nodes have razor views, and if I go to any of the pages they look perfect.
These pages actually exist in our Umbraco content structure:
Store
Category
Product
But in reality, we have 100s of categories and products, and we are integrating with data off-platform. No worries, as we've hijacked the controller for each of these pages to return the data we need in our views.
So I created myself a Composer and registered a simple route.
RouteTable.Routes.MapUmbracoRoute(
"NopRoutes-Category",
"store/{category}",
new
{
controller = "NopCatalogPage",
action = "Category",
category = "",
template = "nopCatalogPage"
},
new ProductListingFilterHandler(category));
Where category is the content node, in Umbraco, representing a category page.
Requesting anything like "store/games" for instance will hit the same controller as "store/category". Content model looks the same.
Except that I get an error message with my custom route:
No physical template file was found for template Index
Looks like the return CurrentTemplate() statement works if Umbraco is routing the page, but I'm lacking something in my custom route. Anyone care to venture a guess as to what I'm doing wrong on this end?
Would need to check this when I'm next at a computer but...
is it because you are specifying a 'template' in the MapUmbracoRoute method?
template = "nopCatalogPage"
I don't remember ever doing that!
Essentially I think CurrentTemplate should return the template that the content item for the request is published with, in your case this is the node that your VirtualNodeRouteHandler is returning.
new ProductListingFilterHandler(category));
So if you remove the explicit mention of 'template' in the MapUmbracoRoute, and you make sure your 'category' Document Type has a template assigned to it in Umbraco - then CurrentTemplate may return a valid template.
If that doesn't resolve, and your ProductListingFilterHandler is definately returning the correct category node (set a breakpoint to see, before it blows up)
Then you can also return a direct View instead of CurrentTemplate
Thank you Marc. Sorry it's taken me so long to get back to this. You'd think with being stuck inside I'd have all the time in the world! Thank you again. I will look into this.
I tried the template = "string" as a last ditch effort that made no difference. :)
What I mean is try without specifying a template at all in the mapping, as it's the Umbraco routing in the controller action that will determine the template based on the current associated IPublishedContent item (what the virtual node route handler returns).
so
RouteTable.Routes.MapUmbracoRoute(
"NopRoutes-Category",
"store/{category}",
new
{
controller = "NopCatalogPage",
action = "Category",
category = UrlParameter.Optional
},
new ProductListingFilterHandler(category));
If you are not sure the ProductListingFilterHandler is finding an IPublishedContent item which is published with a template, you could try temporarily 'hardcoding' the virtualnoderoutehandler to the id of a known published content category using the core UmbracoVirtualNodeByIdRouteHandler
new UmbracoVirtualNodeByIdRouteHandler(1058)
where 1058 would be the known id...
... not as a final solution but just to make sure you have a Published Content item with a template returned here.
Custom MVC Route Help
I'm putting together a small demo but I've gone in circles trying to figure this out.
Let's say I have Umbraco content nodes setup and working for an e-commerce site. There's a store root node, with a category, and a product node. And all these nodes have razor views, and if I go to any of the pages they look perfect.
These pages actually exist in our Umbraco content structure:
But in reality, we have 100s of categories and products, and we are integrating with data off-platform. No worries, as we've hijacked the controller for each of these pages to return the data we need in our views.
I tried following these instructions to generate routes such as store/games or store/games/game-title and inject (?) the proper content model.
So I created myself a Composer and registered a simple route.
Where
categoryis the content node, in Umbraco, representing a category page.Requesting anything like "store/games" for instance will hit the same controller as "store/category". Content model looks the same.
Except that I get an error message with my custom route:
Looks like the
return CurrentTemplate()statement works if Umbraco is routing the page, but I'm lacking something in my custom route. Anyone care to venture a guess as to what I'm doing wrong on this end?Hi Mark
Would need to check this when I'm next at a computer but...
is it because you are specifying a 'template' in the MapUmbracoRoute method?
I don't remember ever doing that!
Essentially I think CurrentTemplate should return the template that the content item for the request is published with, in your case this is the node that your VirtualNodeRouteHandler is returning.
So if you remove the explicit mention of 'template' in the MapUmbracoRoute, and you make sure your 'category' Document Type has a template assigned to it in Umbraco - then CurrentTemplate may return a valid template.
If that doesn't resolve, and your ProductListingFilterHandler is definately returning the correct category node (set a breakpoint to see, before it blows up)
Then you can also return a direct View instead of CurrentTemplate
eg
which at least might determine if the issue is in CurrentTemplate or in the mapping!
regards
marc
Thank you Marc. Sorry it's taken me so long to get back to this. You'd think with being stuck inside I'd have all the time in the world! Thank you again. I will look into this.
I tried the
template = "string"as a last ditch effort that made no difference. :)Hi Mark
What I mean is try without specifying a template at all in the mapping, as it's the Umbraco routing in the controller action that will determine the template based on the current associated IPublishedContent item (what the virtual node route handler returns).
so
If you are not sure the ProductListingFilterHandler is finding an IPublishedContent item which is published with a template, you could try temporarily 'hardcoding' the virtualnoderoutehandler to the id of a known published content category using the core UmbracoVirtualNodeByIdRouteHandler
new UmbracoVirtualNodeByIdRouteHandler(1058)
where 1058 would be the known id...
... not as a final solution but just to make sure you have a Published Content item with a template returned here.
regards
Marc
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