Get the PageReference Object from the friendly URL(string).

Tahir Naveed

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How can we get the PageReference Object from the friendly URL(string). I tried PermanentLinkMapStore, but failed... Can any body please guide.

Thanks

#41533

Jul 09, 2010 17:59

ben.morris@fortunecookie.co.uk

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I believe you need to play around with the URL rewriter to break a URL down into its internal representation - this contains an "id" parameter that you can grab a PageReference from.

Something like the code below should sort you out:

//* Convert an external URL to an internal URL
UrlBuilder newURL = new UrlBuilder("http://EPiServer6TestSite/Home-page/");
Global.UrlRewriteProvider.ConvertToInternal(newURL);

//* Now fetch the ID and get a page reference
PageReference result;
string pageIDslug = newURL.QueryCollection["id"];
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(pageIDslug))
{
string[] splitSlug = newURL.QueryCollection["id"].Split(new[] { '_' }, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);

    int pageId;
    if (splitSlug.Length > 0 && int.TryParse(splitSlug[0], out pageId))
    {
        //* Do we have a work page ID?
        int workPageId;
        if (splitSlug.Length > 1 && int.TryParse(splitSlug[1], out workPageId))
        {
            result = new PageReference(pageId, workPageId);
        }
        else
        {
            result = new PageReference(pageId);
        }
    }
}

#41535

Jul 09, 2010 18:42

Erik Nordin Wahlberg

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PageReference.ParseURL() could be another choice. Need to convert it to an internal URL first though.

#41538

Jul 09, 2010 19:24

Tahir Naveed

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Thanks, combination of both suggestions solved my problem

#41557

Jul 13, 2010 11:52

Muhammad Kashif

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Tahir

Another solution - very similar to above too . It has same concept to covert the Url to internal state.

UrlBuilder urlBuilder = new UrlBuilder(Url);
object pageReference;

Global.UrlRewriteProvider.ConvertToInternal(urlBuilder, out pageReference);

//or use PageReference.ParseUrl() here

                      if (pageReference != null && pageReference is PageReference)
                    {
                       //ur page reference logic here
                    }

#41573

Edited, Jul 13, 2010 23:14

Kamruz Jaman

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"/mysite/en-gb/child/grandchild""/mysite/en-gb/child/grandchild"On a similar note, a complete newbie question by I can't seem to find the answer to this...

How do I get a reference to a page by absolute URL, e.g. "/mysite/child/grand-child"

PageReference.ParseURL looks like the correct method, but what am I missing?

var relUrl = "/CommittedQuitters/Today/Blow-Temptation/";

//var pageRef = PageReference.ParseUrl(relUrl);

//var pageByLoc = DataFactory.Instance.GetPage(pageRef);

var url = "/mysite/child/grand-child";
var pageRef = PageReference.ParseUrl(url); <-- returns PageReference.EmptyReference
var page = DataFactory.Instance.GetPage(pageRef);

Eventually I will end up with several sites and languages, so the tree structure would be like so for example, so ideally i'd like to be able to retrieve the reference relatively...

"/mysite1/en-gb/child/grandchild"
"/mysite1/fr-fr/child/grandchild"

"/mysite2/en-gb/child/grandchild"
"/mysite2/it-it/child/grandchild"

"/mysite3/en-gb/child/grandchild"
"/mysite3/es-es/child/grandchild"

Let me know if you need info.

thanks

#44888

Oct 19, 2010 17:30