Change culture parameter name

[mdmoura]

Hello,

If I am not wrong the parameter that holds the current culture is "culture", right?

Is it possible to change the name of this parameter?

Thank You,
Miguel

[Dresel]

Yes you are right.

The culture parameter is just added to the defaults collection of the inner route:

public static LocalizationRoute ToLocalizationRoute(this TIRoute route, string url, string culture)
{
    // Add culture to the route defaults so it can be used as action parameter
    TRouteValueDictionary defaults = new TRouteValueDictionary(route.Defaults);
    defaults["culture"] = culture;

    return new LocalizationRoute(url, defaults,
        new TRouteValueDictionary(route.Constraints), new TRouteValueDictionary(route.DataTokens), route.RouteHandler(), culture);
}

Depending on what you need you could modify the defaults afterwards... why do you want to change that?

[mdmoura]

I am asking because sometimes it is needed to have another culture parameter for an API so changing the one used by RL would be useful ...

Maybe a property on setup? Something like:

x.DefaultCulture = "en";
x.ParameterName = "something";

Another useful feature would be to control the position of the culture parameter.

I think at the moment Route Localization create the routes as follows:

/en/api/tags

It would be greate to use also:

api/en/tags

Where API is a RoutePrefix.

[Dresel]

The culture parameter has nothing todo with the routeprefix within the url - the culture parameter also exists if you don't use route prefix.

I also wouldn't see it as parameter, it is more a "constant" which is added to the route, so you can use it to query the current culture.

You are right for the RoutePrefix position, what options are there?

• Before [RouteArea], [RoutePrefix], [Route] (as it is now)
• After [RouteArea] but before [RoutePrefix], [Route]
• After [RouteArea], [RoutePrefix] but before [Route]
• After [RouteArea], [RoutePrefix], [Route]

Anything else?

[mdmoura]

I think the 4 options you suggested are enough.

That would be great because en/api does not sound right ... but api/en does.

[Dresel]

Added a separate issue for that.

Back to the culture "parameter" naming. How do you use it at the moment and when do you need to rename it? If I understand your use case, it may be easier to come up with a solution.

[mdmoura]

Consider you have this:

public async Task<IHttpActionResult> Get(Int32 id, String culture) {
  // ...
}

Wouldn't this interfere with the culture parameter?

Another example is a project I received a few weeks ago where Language is used in every place of the project but in RL I must use culture (for example, when changing culture). Having the option to use language as the localization parameter might be useful ...

Again, this is not so important ... I asked because I came up with these situations and if I am not mistaken, in Attribute Routing from Tim McCall, there was an option to define the name of that parameter? Maybe it might be useful because of other reasons ...

[Dresel]

I see. I'll consider it for the next update.