Reverse Routing (of sorts)

ServiceStack Routing
1

I am not actually doing routing here, but I kind of need to reuse the reverse-routing built into ServiceStack.

Here is my problem, I am trying to populate a string that is a route, with the data in the current Request DTO.

  1. I have the IRequest

  2. The current DTO is defined like this:

    public class MyDto
    {
    public string Id1{get;set;}
    public string Id2{get;set;}
    }

I have a route string: “/resource/{Id1}/another/{Id2}/another” (not the same route as the MyDto

Assuming the current IRequest has an instance of the MyDto, I want to apply reverse routing, using the MyDto instance and the route above to yield this:
“/resource/5/another/6/another”

How do I do that using SS code?

2

Is this the recommend way:

        var populatedRoute = new RestRoute(Request.Dto.GetType(), "/resource/{Id1}/another/{Id2}/another", null, 0).FormatQueryParameters(Request.Dto);
3

I got this working (by examining the extension ToUrl()):

        var route = new RestRoute(Request.Dto.GetType(), pattern, @"PUT, DELETE", 0);
        return route.Apply(Request.Dto, null).Uri;

But affirmation that this is the right approach, would still be good.

4

There’s no formal API that explicitly does this, but internally this is what the Reverse Routing extension methods use.