ASP.NET MVC - Current Action from controller code?

Question

This is very similar to another recent question:

How can I return the current action in an ASP.NET MVC view?

However, I want to get the name of the current action from within controller code.

So within the code of a function that's being called by an Action, I want to get a string of the name of the current Action.

Is this possible?

Answer 1

You can access the route data from within your controller class like this:

var actionName = ControllerContext.RouteData.GetRequiredString("action");

Or, if "action" isn't a required part of your route, you can just index into the route data as per usual.