I am probably going about this the wrong way as i'm a noob to .NET MVC, but is there a way to insert the current url as a parameter into an @Html.Routelink?
I'm passing a partial view into a page to display a list of subcategories based off of the current category.
Here is my controller logic:
public PartialViewResult SubcategoryMenu(string category)
{
IEnumerable<string> subcategories = repository.Products
.Where(x => x.SubCategory.Category.CategoryName == category)
.Select(x => x.SubCategory.SubCategoryName)
.Distinct()
.OrderBy(x => x);
return PartialView(subcategories);
}
Here is my partial view which I'm trying to get the current category url into:
@model IEnumerable<string>
@foreach (var link in Model)
{
@Html.RouteLink(link, new
{
controller = "Product",
action = "List",
category = "INSERT CURRENT URL HERE",
subcategory = link,
page = 1
}, new { @class = "btn btn-block btn-default btn-lg" })
}
When the page displays, all products and categories are listed, no problem. When I click a Category, the URL is http://localhost/Category2 which is what I want.
Click a category, then all of the associated subcategories display in a separate div based on the linq query in the controller just fine.
However, to properly display the products, the url generated for the subcategory view needs to be http://localhost/Category/Subcategory and no matter how I tweek the @Html.RouteLink or even an @Html.Actionlink, all I can get is http://localhost/Subcategory If i pass in text into the @Html.Routelink for controller= "something" that will display http://localhost/something/Subcategory so I've been trying to get the current URL which matches the required category passed into the subcategory @Html.Routelink with no success.
If there is a way to insert the current URL into the subcategory RouteLink it would solve my woes. If there is a way to accomplish, or a better way to do so, please help.
Thank you all!
