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URLSegment character mapping
Hi,
I believe you can set the UrlSegment.URLCharacterMap to override the replacement characters, no? It's just a Hastable with set access.
Regards.
/Q
May 20, 2015 13:22
Hi Quan,
I tried that, but if i add/change to a string instead of a char as replacement, I get a cast exception later on.
/Erik
May 20, 2015 13:30
I guess it's in internal static string ReplaceIllegalChars(string inputString) it happens.
May 20, 2015 13:32
Hi,
The URLCharacterMap.URLCharacterMap is a public static property. You could try to setup it somewhere in your bootstraper.
May 20, 2015 13:37
Hmm, so instead of mapping character-character you want character-string instead.
I have tried yet but I think you can overwrite the default ContentProvider.GetUniqueUrlSegment and do the stuff here. It calls to UrlSegment.GetUrlFriendlySegment, which unfortunately un-overridable.
Just not sure if this approach is even nastier than yours :).
Regards.
/Q
May 20, 2015 13:43
Hmm, so instead of mapping character-character you want character-string.
I have tried yet but I think you can overwrite the default ContentProvider.GetUniqueUrlSegment and do the stuff here. It calls to UrlSegment.GetUrlFriendlySegment, which unfortunately un-overridable.
Just not sure if this approach is even nastier than yours :).
Regards.
/Q
May 20, 2015 13:43
Hehe, I think I'll stick to the current solution. It ignores ä,ö,ü and ß in the character mapping, then in UrlSegment.CreatedUrlSegment I replace them myself with ae, oe, ue and ss.
/Erik
May 20, 2015 13:50
Hi,
we need to have different mappings for the urlsegment depending on which language is edited. Is there a way to configure this somehow? And also, is there a way to add like "oe" as replacement for "ö"? Today UrlSegment.URLCharacterMap is a char[,] which means that's a problem.
Thanks,
Erik
Ps. I have solved this issue with some nasty code, just want to know if there is a best practice I'm missing out on.. :)