MapRoute missing overload

[pantonis]

Hi,

I have noticed that on RouteBuilderExtensions MapRoute method string[] namespaces overload is missing. Any plans for it?

[rynowak]

In vNext, areas are determined by [Area(...)] on your controller, so this feature isn't really relevant anymore. So no, no plans to bring it back 😆

[pantonis]

But what If I have the controllers on a different assembly how do I achieve that without the namespaces overload?

[danroth27]

Instead of using a list of namespaces to group your controllers we recommend using Areas. You can attribute your controllers (regardless of which assembly they are in) with a specific Area and then create a route for that Area.

You can see a test website that shows an example of using Areas in MVC 6 here: https://github.com/aspnet/Mvc/tree/dev/test/WebSites/RoutingWebSite.

Does this work for your scenario?

[pantonis]

Thanks for the example.
It is a very good solution but unfortunately it does not work for my scenario. Reason is I want to keep each route into a different assembly. This is for authorization purposes as the system is huge and several clients need to have only specific dlls thus routes.

[pantonis]

And I suppose Im not the only one out there having this requirement :)

[danroth27]

I think you could still do that with Areas - you could have an Area and route for the controllers in each assembly, right?

[pantonis]

Could you give me an example?

[pantonis]

I dont think that's a solution really. Areas they have to be marked in each and every one controller. I don't want to use attribute routing. What I want is to map routes according to some parameters. Each route is on a different assembly as I described above.

[pantonis]

Nevermind. I used attribute routing for areas only. Created a sample. If you wish I can send it to include it in the examples.

[danroth27]

Cool - going to go ahead and close this issue.