Support Razor Pages with Dash/Hyphon in the name for nice URLs

[schotime]

It seems like Razor Pages doesn't support pages with hyphons/dashes in them.

With no way to change the current URL and only append, this doesn't allow you to have hyphon/dash separated URLs. eg. Blog/this-awesome-blog-post

[rynowak]

A few thoughts...

Typically in a scheme like Blog/this-awesome-blog-post the Blog part is fixed and the this-awesome-post slug comes from a database/parameter so it's not part of the page name.

We recently fixed a bug that was blocking the use of characters that were invalid in class names but valid in filenames, #6296 . This fix will be included in 2.0.0-preview2.

We also have a way to completely customize the route used by the page through application model, we just haven't done much to make it friendly to use: https://github.com/aspnet/Mvc/blob/dev/src/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.RazorPages/ApplicationModels/PageApplicationModel.cs#L84

This has the same set of knobs we use to configure routing for controller-based actions. We haven't said much about this external to the team because it's not very polished yet.

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Does this address your needs?

[schotime]

Thanks for that.
Yeh....blog was a bad example but its definitely something that would be great. We're using underscores at the moment.
Where/When do I get access to this change this model?

[rynowak]

You can access this today by creating an IPageApplicationModelProvider and registering as a service. It's a big hammer.

We'll be providing a nice experience for this after preview 2 #6325

[rynowak]

I'll take that back, it looks like we're doing something about this for 2.0.0-preview2, but it won't be complete.