I am having some difficulty aligning my paths without a hardcode in javascript. I am running an asp.net MVC3 web application.
If my path is of the form
var url = 'http://serverNameHardcode/websiteNameHardcode/service/service?param1=' + param;
Then things work fine when I do
$.get(url,
{},
function (data) {alert('callback success');},'json');
I would like to create a relative path. I tried
var url = 'service/service?param1=' + param;
And this works when I run locally and also in Firefox, but not in IE7. When I publish to the server without the hardcode the callback never fires. I know MVC-3 adds some complexity to routing, but I do not know if it applies to this situation; so, I marked this question as such.
How should I setup my path so I don't need hardcodes?
Just write out the app path as a global js variable from your master view, then compose links as
APPPATH + "path/whatever"
Just had to solve this for one of my jQuery plugins, where it is preferable not to modify anything global (i.e. outside the scope of the plugin use) so I had to disregard the marked answer.
I also found that because I host DEV locally in IIS I could not use a root-relative path (as localhost is not the root).
The solution I came up with extended what I had already started with: a data-controller attribute specifying which controller to use in the element I am applying my plugin to. I find it preferable to data-drive the controller names so the components can be more easily reused.
Previous:
<div data-controller="Section">
Solution:
<div data-controller="#Url.Content("~/Section")">
This injects the server root (e.g. /Test.WindowsAzure.Apr2014/ before the controller name so I wind up with /Test.WindowsAzure.Apr2014/Section which is perfect for then appending actions and other parameters as you have. It also avoids having an absolute path in the output (which takes up extra bytes for no good reason).
In your case use something like:
// Assuming $element points to the element your plugin/code is attached to...
var baseUrl = $element.data('controller');
var url = baseUrl + '/service?param1=' + param;
Update:
Another approach we now use, when we do not mind injecting a global value, is Razor-inject a single global JavaScript variable onto window in the layout file with:
<script>
window.SiteRoot = "#Url.Content("~/")";
</script>
and use it with
var url = window.SiteRoot + '/service?param1=' + param;
One option:
var editLink = '#Url.Action("_EditActivity", "Home")';
$('#activities').load(editLink + "?activityID=" + id);
another example:
var actionURL = '#Url.Action("_DeleteActivity", "Home")';
$('#activities').load(actionURL + "?goalID=" + gID + "&activityID=" + aID);
If you don't need to add to the string:
$('#activities').load('#Url.Action("_Activities", "Home", new { goalID = Model.goalID},null)');
I really need the path to get this to work, maybe its IE7. Who knows. But this worked for me.
Grab the URL and store it somewhere. I chose to implement the data attribute from HTML5.
<div id="websitePath" data-websitePath='#Request.Url.GetLeftPart(System.UriPartial.Authority)#Request.ApplicationPath'></div>
Then when you need to perform some AJAX or otherwise use a URL in javascript you simply refer to the stored value. Also, there are differences in the versions of IIS (not cool if your devbox is IIS5 and your server is IIS7). #Request.ApplicationPath may or may not come back with a '/' appended to the end. So, as a workaround I also trim the last character if it is /. Then include / as part of the url.
var urlprefix = $('#websitePath').data('websitepath');
urlprefix = urlprefix.replace(/\/$/, "");
var url = urlprefix + '/service/service?param1=' + param;
While the accepted answer is correct I would like to add a suggestion (i.e. how I do it).
I am using MVC, and any ajax request goes to a controller. My controllers have services so if a service call is required the controller will take of that.
So what's my point? So if ajax always communicates with a controller, then i would like to let the MVC routing resolve the path for me. So what I write in Javascript for url is something like this:
url: 'controller/action'
This way there is no need for the root path etc...
Also, you can put this in a separate Javascript file and it will also work whereas #Url.Content will need to be called on the view.
Related
I've searched several posts on this and the methods all would normally work, however...
I'm in an environment where we use 3 different servers (Dev, UAT and Prod). All 3 have differing URL structures:
http://dev.com/myusername/applicationname (Dev)
http://uat.com/applicationname (UAT)
http://prod.com/applicationname (Prod)
The issue that I'm having is when I try to use a dropdown I'm having problems getting the url right. The issue is when I use the following code to populate my dropdown:
#Html.DropDownList("Owners", ViewData["Owners"] as SelectList, new { onchange = "document.location.href='/Builds/' + this.options[this.selectedIndex].value;" })
It handles the event just fine, but produces a URL of:
http://dev.com/Builds/value. I need it to be http://dev.com/myusername/application/Builds/value.
Any ideas on how I can accomplish this?
Get the base uri then append your stuff to that:
string baseUrl = Request.Url.Scheme + "://" + Request.Url.Authority +
Request.ApplicationPath.TrimEnd('/') + "/";
Note that the trim is there because it may or may not end with the trailing slash depending on where it is hosted (root or sub directory)
You might also be able to use
HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath("~/Builds/")
This might also work:
#HttpContext.Current.Request.Url.GetLeftPart(UriPartial.Authority)#Url.Content("~/Builds/")
I'm relatively new to client side development. I'm creating an angularJS directive which references a static html, in [root]/Static/template.html.
I guess the problem is not unique to angularJS.
Now I need this address to be root relative, so that it can be loaded regardless of where I use the directive. The problem is that I don't know where my site will be uploaded, so it might be put in www.mysite.com/ or might be www.mysite.com/system/
I also can't use relative path, as it will be sensitive to where I use the directive, so for instance if I use Static/template.html, it will be found by documents in the website root, but not in the inner folders.
What is the correct way to reference documents to be robust?
If your static folder is relative the place where your application is deployed, e.g.:
www.example.com/index.html
www.example.com/Static
www.example.com/root/index.html
www.example.com/root/Static
www.example.com/root/foobar-app/index.html
www.example.com/root/foobar-app/Static
Then you need to extract the base url and store it somewhere. window.location API could be used to do that.
E.g.:
<!-- index.html -->
<!-- should probably be placed into external script file -->
<script>
function extractPath(url) {
return url.match(/.*\//) // find all chars until the slash
}
var baseurl = window.location.origin + extractPath(window.location.pathname);
window.baseurl = baseurl; // store in global scope
</script>
This snippet shows the general idea. Now elsewhere in your code you can read the base url path to access static resources. E.g.:
var image_url = window.baseurl + "Static" + image_path;
In AngularJS you would normally store that variable in the main app controller. If you only have one factory to access static resources, you could consider storing the baseurl there.
URL that starts with / is the URL from the root.
So if you set /Static/template.html, you can access template.html from both paths(www.mysite.com/ and www.mysite.com/system/).
I have a very standard ASP MVC app that I use a little javascript to show a Partial View. In order to make that Javascript work I needed to hard code a path to the Partial which is different between Dev and Production.
Mainly, in Dev there is no App specification where as in Production there is. See here:
Production=var URL = '/WetWashRequest/wetWashRequests/GetDetails?WONumber=' + wo;
Dev = var URL = '/wetWashRequests/GetDetails?WONumber=' + wo;
What this means is that as I work on it locally I delete the first part and when I want to deploy I have to remember to re add it.
This seems so ridiculously flawed that I can only assume I am being ignorant and doing something wrong...
You can take advantage of UrlHelper to get the URLs, as long as you do it in view:
var URL = '#Url.Action("GetDetails")';
Obviously, it doesn't make sense to put all your JavaScript in view, so what I will normal do is set just this in my view, in a namespace var, and then reference it in my external JavaScript:
View
<script>
var MyApplication = MyApplication || {};
MyApplication.GetDetailsUrl = '#Url.Action("GetDetails")';
</script>
External JS
$.get(MyApplication.GetDetailsUrl, { WONumber: wo }, function (result) {
...
});
Ok so another issue i got
I have a js file that i need to include on my page (i dont have access to edit this js file)
Inside that javascript there is a function wich has a line that i need to edit a variable in there.
lets assume:
Code:
var links = [{"offer_id":"1","title":"Text!","url":"http:\/\/www.site.com\/tracker\/1\/?http:\/\/site.com\/click.php?aff=9917&camp=5626&crt=13346&sid=e6a00014f247fe39de1b_1","footer_text":"text","blank_referrer":"1","active":"1","value":"0.40","creation_time":"1327785202"}];
notice : '&sid=e6a00014f247fe39de1b_1'
i need to add something right after sid=
so that i becomes for example:
Code:
&sid=AlssfIT_e6a00014f247fe39de1b_1
i added: AlssfIT_
any ideas how to achieve this ?
i tried something like
Code:
str.replace("&sid=","&sid="+kwd);
right after i "include" the js file but aparently is not working
I think you're going about it the wrong way. If notice is a variable in the global space you can just replace it normally.
window.someObject.notice = window.someObject.notice.replace("&sid=","&sid="+kwd);
This will of course only work if notice is a variable that is navigable to in the global namespace and is not inside a closure. It is inside a closure if it has a var declaration inside a function() {...}
But, assuming that there is global access to that variable, that will be your easiest way to achieve this.
If not, you can try grabbing the contents of the script and executing it hopefully overwriting the original code. This will only work if your script and the script you are fetching are from the same origin (domain, subdomain, port, protocol, a few other things) - it is impossible otherwise due to the _Same Origin Policy_
Assuming you are at the same origin, you could do something like this (using jquery for simplicity)
( function() {
// First we need the url of the script, we can grab it out of the element directly or it can be hard coded
var scriptLocation = $('script#the-id-of-the-script-element').prop('src');
// Now that we have the location fetch the script again so we can get it as plaintext
// this will usually not do another HTTP request since your browser has it cached
$.get(scriptLocation).done(function(text) { // I prefer the deferred syntax as being more explicit, this is equivalent to $.get(scriptLocation, function(text) {
var newText = text.replace("&sid=","&sid="+kwd);
eval(newText);
});
} )()
Something like this could work.
try regex: (not tested)
myregexp = new RegExp("/&sid=/", "gims");
str.replace(myregexp, "&sid=" + kwd);
Say I have the site
http://localhost/virtual
where virtual is the virtual directory
I have an Ajax request that is defined in a javascript file using JQuery
$.getJSON("/Controller/Action")
When this is called, the client tries to find the url at the root level i.e.
http://localhost/Controller/Action
If I add the tilde (~) symbol in, it turns into
http://localhost/virtual/~/Controller/Action
It should (if it was to do what I wanted) resolve to
http://localhost/virtual/Controller/Action
Any ideas on how to fix this?
Aku's hint above looked right but it didn't want to work for me. Finally I figured out to use it like this
<script type="text/javascript">
var config = {
contextPath: '<%= #Url.Content("~") %>'
};
</script>
and then in my JavaScript I use it like this
config.contextPath + 'myAppPath".
So in case of no virtual directory this resolves to
"/" + "myAppPath"
and in case of a virtual directory this resolves to
"/VirtualPath/" + + "myAppPath"
and this finally worked for me.
I used this solution successfully
Place the following element in your masterpage
<%= Html.Hidden("HiddenCurrentUrl", Url.Action("Dummy"))%>
Declare a global variable in your main javascript file
var baseUrl = "";
Set baseUrl to the value of "HiddenCurrentUrl" when your javascript is loaded
baseUrl = $("#HiddenCurrentUrl").val();
baseUrl = baseUrl.substring(0, baseUrl.indexOf("Dummy"));
Use baseUrl
$.getJSON(baseUrl + "Action")
EDIT Improved solution
In your controller
ViewBag.BaseUrl = Request.Url.GetLeftPart(UriPartial.Authority) + Request.ApplicationPath + "/";
In your master page
<script type="text/javascript">
var YourNameSpace = YourNameSpace || {};
YourNameSpace.config = {
baseUrl: "#ViewBag.BaseUrl"
}
</script>
Use your baseUrl
$.getJSON(YourNameSpace.config.baseUrl + "Action")
Another way to get a base url is
<script type="text/javascript">
window.g_baseUrl = '#Url.Content("~")';
</script>
For example, if you run your app from SomeName virtual directory then
window.g_baseUrl variable will be equal to /SomeName/
Benefit of this method is an ability to call actions in the other controllers like so
$.getJSON(window.g_baseUrl + "AnotherController/Action")
Maybe,$.getJSON("Controller/Action") will do?
The tilde shortcut for your application root path is a special feature of ASP.NET, not part of URLs themselves. Consequently trying to use a URL with a tilde in from JavaScript won't resolve the site root, it'll just give you a literal ~ as you can see.
You'd need to pass the value of the application root path to JavaScript so it can construct URLs itself. I'm not that familiar with ASP.NET but I believe you could do something like:
<script type="text/javscript">
var approot= <%= JavaScriptSerializer.Serialize(Request.ApplicationPath) %>;
... $.getJSON(approot+'/Controller/Action') ...;
</script>
A simpler way to do it if you know there's a link on the page to the approot would be to read the href of that link:
var approot= $('#homepagelink').attr('href');
Relative Path to the JS file was the only solution I found
$.getJSON("../Controller/Action")
I know this question is very old but I was lately struggling with this issue and was able to resolve it using
url:'<%=VirtualPathUtility.ToAbsolute("~/Include/cntrols/Data.aspx") %>',
this works great in my ajax call...
It is too late to answer this question. But may be useful to someone as I had same problem. Instead of doing all this steps mentioned in above answers, better way is to use
Url.Action('action','controller').
It'll generate url /VIRDIR/controller/action if it is running from virtual directory or generate /controller/action in other case.