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ActionImage – ASP.NET MVC

June 12th, 2009 8 comments

I was in the middle of doing some grid work using the MVC Contrib UI Grid and need an image column. It was a bit messy and a struggle. Turns out there is not a ActionImage helper that behaves like ActionLink. There are plenty of quick hacks about but I wanted some that behaves the same as ActionLink with the same overloads and some extra bits.

It supports all the normal overloads that ActionLink provides in System.Web.Mvc.Html and the generic versions from Microsoft.Web.Mvc.Html. It also support html attributes for both the anchor tag and the image tag.

Also one thing the Generic version of ActionLink does not have is the ability to specify additional route values as well as the action parameters. ActionImage supports the merging of the action parameters and additional route values.

Any suggestions, improvements, fixes, are always welcome.

Regards Tobi.

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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq.Expressions;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Mvc;
using System.Web.Routing;
using Microsoft.Web.Mvc.Internal;
 
namespace GMS.Web.Mvc.Html
{
    public static class HtmlHelpers
    {
 
        public static string ActionImage(this HtmlHelper htmlHelper, string imageUrl, string linkText, string actionName)
        {
            return htmlHelper.ActionImage(imageUrl, linkText, actionName, null, new RouteValueDictionary(), new RouteValueDictionary());
        }
 
        public static string ActionImage(this HtmlHelper htmlHelper, string imageUrl, string linkText, string actionName, object routeValues)
        {
            return htmlHelper.ActionImage(imageUrl, linkText, actionName, null, new RouteValueDictionary(routeValues), new RouteValueDictionary());
        }
 
        public static string ActionImage(this HtmlHelper htmlHelper, string imageUrl, string linkText, string actionName, string controllerName)
        {
            return htmlHelper.ActionImage(imageUrl, linkText, actionName, controllerName, new RouteValueDictionary(), new RouteValueDictionary());
        }
 
        public static string ActionImage(this HtmlHelper htmlHelper, string imageUrl, string linkText, string actionName, RouteValueDictionary routeValues)
        {
            return htmlHelper.ActionImage(imageUrl, linkText, actionName, null, routeValues, new RouteValueDictionary());
        }
 
        public static string ActionImage(this HtmlHelper htmlHelper, string imageUrl, string linkText, string actionName, object routeValues, object htmlanchorAttributes)
        {
            return htmlHelper.ActionImage(imageUrl, linkText, actionName, null, new RouteValueDictionary(routeValues), new RouteValueDictionary(htmlanchorAttributes), null);
        }
 
        public static string ActionImage(this HtmlHelper htmlHelper, string imageUrl, string linkText, string actionName, RouteValueDictionary routeValues, IDictionary<string, object> htmlanchorAttributes, IDictionary<string, object> htmlImageAttributes)
        {
            return htmlHelper.ActionImage(imageUrl, linkText, actionName, null, routeValues, htmlanchorAttributes, htmlImageAttributes);
        }
 
        public static string ActionImage(this HtmlHelper htmlHelper, string imageUrl, string linkText, string actionName, string controllerName, object routeValues, object htmlanchorAttributes)
        {
            return htmlHelper.ActionImage(imageUrl, linkText, actionName, controllerName, new RouteValueDictionary(routeValues), new RouteValueDictionary(htmlanchorAttributes), null);
        }
 
        public static string ActionImage(this HtmlHelper htmlHelper, string imageUrl, string linkText, string actionName, string controllerName, string protocol, string hostName, string fragment, object routeValues, object htmlanchorAttributes, object htmlImageAttributes)
        {
            return htmlHelper.ActionImage(imageUrl, linkText, actionName, controllerName, protocol, hostName, fragment, new RouteValueDictionary(routeValues), new RouteValueDictionary(htmlanchorAttributes), new RouteValueDictionary(htmlImageAttributes));
        }
 
        public static string ActionImage<TController>(this HtmlHelper htmlHelper, Expression<Action<TController>> action, string imageUrl, string linkText) where TController : Controller
        {
            return htmlHelper.ActionImage(action, imageUrl, linkText, null, null, null);
        }
 
        public static string ActionImage<TController>(this HtmlHelper htmlHelper, Expression<Action<TController>> action, string imageUrl, string linkText, object routeValues) where TController : Controller
        {
            return htmlHelper.ActionImage(action, imageUrl, linkText, routeValues, null, null);
        }
 
        public static string ActionImage<TController>(this HtmlHelper htmlHelper, Expression<Action<TController>> action, string imageUrl, string linkText, object routeValues, object htmlanchorAttributes, object htmlImageAttributes) where TController : Controller
        {
            return htmlHelper.ActionImage(action, imageUrl, linkText, routeValues, new RouteValueDictionary(htmlanchorAttributes), new RouteValueDictionary(htmlImageAttributes));
        }
 
        public static string ActionImage<TController>(this HtmlHelper htmlHelper, Expression<Action<TController>> action, string imageUrl, string linkText, object routeValues, IDictionary<string, object> htmlanchorAttributes, IDictionary<string, object> htmlImageAttributes) where TController : Controller
        {
 
            var _routeValuesFromExpression = ExpressionHelper.GetRouteValuesFromExpression(action);
            var _mergedRouteValues = MergeRouteValueDictionaries(_routeValuesFromExpression, new RouteValueDictionary(routeValues));
 
            // get the action name
            //
            var _actionName = ((MethodCallExpression)action.Body).Method.Name;
 
            // get the bare url for the Action using the current
            // request context
            //     
            var _url = new UrlHelper(htmlHelper.ViewContext.RequestContext).Action(_actionName, _mergedRouteValues);
 
            return GetImageLink(_url, linkText, imageUrl, htmlanchorAttributes, htmlImageAttributes);
 
        }
 
        public static string ActionImage(this HtmlHelper htmlHelper, string imageUrl, string linkText, string actionName, string controllerName, RouteValueDictionary routeValues, IDictionary<string, object> htmlanchorAttributes, IDictionary<string, object> htmlImageAttributes)
        {
            // get the bare url for the Action using the current
            // request context
            //
            var _url = new UrlHelper(htmlHelper.ViewContext.RequestContext).Action(actionName, controllerName, routeValues);
 
            return GetImageLink(_url, linkText, imageUrl, htmlanchorAttributes, htmlImageAttributes);
 
        }
 
        public static string ActionImage(this HtmlHelper htmlHelper, string imageUrl, string linkText, string actionName, string controllerName, string protocol, string hostName, string fragment, RouteValueDictionary routeValues, IDictionary<string, object> htmlanchorAttributes, IDictionary<string, object> htmlImageAttributes)
        {
 
            // get the bare url for the Action using the current
            // request context
            //
            var _url = new UrlHelper(htmlHelper.ViewContext.RequestContext).Action(actionName, controllerName, routeValues, protocol, hostName);
 
            return GetImageLink(_url, linkText, imageUrl, htmlanchorAttributes, htmlImageAttributes);
 
        }
 
        /// <summary>
        /// Build up the anchor and image tag.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="url">The URL.</param>
        /// <param name="linkText">The link text.</param>
        /// <param name="imageUrl">The image URL.</param>
        /// <param name="htmlanchorAttributes">The HTML anchor attributes.</param>
        /// <param name="htmlImageAttributes">The HTML image attributes.</param>
        /// <returns></returns>
        internal static string GetImageLink(string url, string linkText, string imageUrl, IDictionary<string, object> htmlanchorAttributes, IDictionary<string, object> htmlImageAttributes)
        {
            // build up the image link.
            // <a href=\"ActionUrl\"><img src=\"ImageUrl\" alt=\"Your Link Text\" /></a>
            //
 
            var _linkText = !string.IsNullOrEmpty(linkText) ? HttpUtility.HtmlEncode(linkText) : string.Empty;
 
            // build the img tag
            //
            TagBuilder _image = new TagBuilder("img");
            _image.MergeAttributes(htmlImageAttributes);
            _image.MergeAttribute("src", imageUrl);
            _image.MergeAttribute("alt", _linkText);
 
            // build the anchor tag
            //
            TagBuilder _link = new TagBuilder("a");
            _link.MergeAttributes(htmlanchorAttributes);
            _link.MergeAttribute("href", url);
 
            // place the img tag inside the anchor tag.
            //
            _link.InnerHtml = _image.ToString(TagRenderMode.Normal);
 
            // render the image link.
            //
            return _link.ToString(TagRenderMode.Normal);
 
        }
 
 
        /// <summary>
        /// Merges the 2 source route value dictionaries.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="routeValueDictionary1">RouteValueDictionary 1.</param>
        /// <param name="routeValueDictionary2">RouteValueDictionary 2.</param>
        /// <returns></returns>
        internal static RouteValueDictionary MergeRouteValueDictionaries(RouteValueDictionary routeValueDictionary1, RouteValueDictionary routeValueDictionary2)
        {
            var _mergedRouteValues = new RouteValueDictionary();
 
            if ((routeValueDictionary1 != null) & (routeValueDictionary2 != null))
            {
                foreach (KeyValuePair<string, object> routeElement in routeValueDictionary1)
                {
                    _mergedRouteValues[routeElement.Key] = routeElement.Value;
                }
 
                foreach (KeyValuePair<string, object> routeElement in routeValueDictionary2)
                {
                    _mergedRouteValues[routeElement.Key] = routeElement.Value;
                }
 
                return _mergedRouteValues;
            }
 
            return null;
        }
 
    }
 
}
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