Is it possible to use System.Web.Routing in Castle Monorail?

Question

Is it possible to use the Microsoft (or Mono) supplied System.Web.Routing instead of the MonoRail routing stuff when building a Castle MonoRail app for ASP.NET? Any good information on how to implement this as a solution? Pros and cons?

Answer 1

It is quite possible. You should implement ASP.NET's IRouteHandler that will look up the route data in the given RequestContext, and then hand the data over to MonoRail.

That can be done is several ways. I guess that Server.RewritePath will work, but you can more cleanly lookup the code in two classes of MonoRail, namely MonorailHttpHandlerFactory and RoutingModuleEx, to figure out how to return set the needed things on the MonoRailHttpHandler you'll return from the IRouteHandler.

As for problems - it would be very tricky to to the reverse, i.e. generate routes from controller actions.