UrlResolver.Current.GetUrl Returning Null

Marc Daffern

Vote:

I have a page which returns the ContentType name and the Url of every page on our site, its purpose is for an automated test to browse each URL and check that a 200 is returned. This page uses the following to return its friendly URL:

public UrlBuilder GetFriendlyUrl(PageData page)
{
UrlBuilder urlBuilder = new UrlBuilder(page.LinkURL);
Global.UrlRewriteProvider.ConvertToExternal(urlBuilder, page.PageLink, Encoding.UTF8);
return urlBuilder;
}

In the case of one particular ContentType, this returns a url that looks like this, in every instance of that ContentType :

"/link/8b5c1e86a4b54110ba7a311a691de448.aspx?id=9485&epslanguage=en"

Other points to note...

This works correctly for all of the pages on our site except for pages of this contenttype.
If I call UrlResolver.Current.GetUrl on its contentLink, it returns null.
There is nothing different about this contenttype compared to other types we are using.
This worked correctly before we upgraded from 6R2 to 7.5.
This ContentType was created after we upgraded, although other types have been created since then, and they work fine.

I've tried a load of OOTB ways of getting external URL from ContentReference, PageData etc and nothing returns a nice, friendly URL. When our automated test tries to browse to this dodgy-looking URL, it fails.

Can anyone enlighten me as to what's going on here?

Cheers

#116837

Feb 05, 2015 15:44

Johan Björnfot

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Does the content type in question have a Page template (that is a template that can render the content in it's own request, like a WebForm, Mvc Controller or a HttpHandler)? By default UrlResolver checks that the content has a valid template otehrwise it returns null (since browsing the url will result in a 404).

You can however force the UrlResovler to generate urls even if there is no template for the content. You do this by using the overload that takes a VirtualPathArgument and there specify ValidateTemplate=false

#116840

Feb 05, 2015 16:14

Marc Daffern

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Thanks Johan, the ContentType does have a template associated with it, but it's a template shared with other ContentTypes, if that makes any difference. I've tried what you suggested though and that did work, thanks for your help!

#116844

Feb 05, 2015 16:29