Hi,

I've started a new site that's using Umbraco 8.7.0 and I'm struggling with route hijacking as defined here:

https://our.umbraco.com/DOCUMENTATION/Reference/Routing/custom-controllers

I've done this numerous times in older versions, like 8.1, but for some reason it's not working for me in 8.7.0. I'm not sure if I'm missing something obvious or if you don't use this method anymore. I've pretty much copied/pasted something I had in the 8.1 project and just changed all the namespaces and classnames to suit my situation. I have a doc type named My Account (alias is myAccount) and I've created a controller like this:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Mvc;
using Umbraco.Core.Models;
using Umbraco.Web.Mvc;

namespace explorer.web.Controllers
{
    public class MyAccountController : RenderMvcController
    {
        // GET: MyAccount
        public async Task<ActionResult> Index(Umbraco.Web.Models.ContentModel model)
        {
            return View(model);
        }
    }
}

When I view a page of the My Account doctype (using its default template), it never hits the breakpoint I set in my custom controller. Now, interestingly, I noticed if I remove the async and Task, and add override to it like this:

public override ActionResult Index(Umbraco.Web.Models.ContentModel model)
{
    return View(model);
}

it hits the breakpoint just fine. The trouble is, I'm going to need aysnc/await support and as I mentioned I've done this before in older version of Umbraco 8.

I know if this won't work I can just code something up in a macro and get/post to a surface controller. Async/await seems to work in that implementation, but I'm trying to avoid macros except places where it would be a reusable component. I'll only ever have one "My Account" page in this project though so a template with a custom controller seems the way to go.

Can anyone help me? Thanks!

EDIT: I mentioned using the async/await approach in a surface controller as an alternative...I looked through my project again and noticed I'm doing async/awain in an UmbracoApiController, not a SurfaceController.

EDIT 2: On a whim I upgraded to 8.8 and now my async/await RenderMvcController is just fine. Maybe it's a 8.7 bug that I ran into or something...leaving the rest of this post in tact in case it helps someone else that has this happen to them. Sorry if I wasted anyone's time who may have been looking into a solution for me!