Infinite URL Parameters for ASP.NET MVC Route

Question

I need an implementation where I can get infinite parameters on my ASP.NET Controller. It will be better if I give you an example :

Let's assume that I will have following urls :

example.com/tag/poo/bar/poobar example.com/tag/poo/bar/poobar/poo2/poo4 example.com/tag/poo/bar/poobar/poo89 

As you can see, it will get infinite number of tags after example.com/tag/ and slash will be a delimiter here.

On the controller I would like to do this :

foreach(string item in paramaters) {       //this is one of the url paramaters     string poo = item;  } 

Is there any known way to achieve this? How can I get reach the values from controller? With Dictionary<string, string> or List<string>?

NOTE :

The question is not well explained IMO but I tried my best to fit it. in. Feel free to tweak it

Answer 1

Like this:

routes.MapRoute("Name", "tag/{*tags}", new { controller = ..., action = ... });  ActionResult MyAction(string tags) {     foreach(string tag in tags.Split("/")) {         ...     } } 

Answer 2

The catch all will give you the raw string. If you want a more elegant way to handle the data, you could always use a custom route handler.

public class AllPathRouteHandler : MvcRouteHandler {     private readonly string key;      public AllPathRouteHandler(string key)     {         this.key = key;     }      protected override IHttpHandler GetHttpHandler(RequestContext requestContext)     {         var allPaths = requestContext.RouteData.Values[key] as string;         if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(allPaths))         {             requestContext.RouteData.Values[key] = allPaths.Split('/');         }         return base.GetHttpHandler(requestContext);     } }  

Register the route handler.

routes.Add(new Route("tag/{*tags}",         new RouteValueDictionary(                 new                 {                     controller = "Tag",                     action = "Index",                 }),         new AllPathRouteHandler("tags"))); 

Get the tags as a array in the controller.

public ActionResult Index(string[] tags) {     // do something with tags     return View(); }