Passing an Item ID to the Controller via the Querystring

Question

I am having an issue when passing itemid as query string to controller

url is rendered like this

http://sitecorelocal/api/sitecore/Product?sc_itemid=%7BB416980B-40A7-4C8F-8F98-375DD1CD9544%7

instead of

http://sitecorelocal/api/sitecore/Product?sc_itemid={B416980B-40A7-4C8F-8F98-375DD1CD9544}

Am retrieving Id like this

            @{

             var list = @Model.Item.ID;

            }

How to avoid binding special character?

Answer 1

Your issue is that "{" and "}" are not valid characters in a URL. As such they have automatically been URL encoded when used in your query string.

Your options are

1. Strip the brackets before appending the query string and process as required when receiving it
2. Use a URL decode method such as HttpContext.Current.Server.UrlDecode(HttpContext.Current.Request.QueryString["sc_itemid"]);

Answer 2

Encoding of special characters in the URL is default behavior. To have item id without special characters, you can use Sitecore.Data.ID.ToShortID() method to have short id which will not have any special characters and can solve your issue.

Another way is that remove the bracket mannually and at the time of retrieving, do string manipulation but thats not the right way.

Answer 3

You will need to replace the encoded value. From the Id %7BB416980B-40A7-4C8F-8F98-375DD1CD9544%7D you are passing, you will replace

%7B with {

%7D with }

Then you will have the Id as {B416980B-40A7-4C8F-8F98-375DD1CD9544}. Once you have the Id in a proper state, you can then search the corresponding Sitecore Item using the Sitecore APIs.

UPDATE

If you are using Item Name in the url. This is not recommended to search via Item Name because

• this can cost you in terms of performance.
• you may end up with more than 1 item if item names are not unique.

One way you can use search via Item Name is if you already know the Parent Item and also if Item Name is unique.

For example, /sitecore/content/my site/products/product A and /sitecore/content/my site/products/product B and so on. So based on this, the parent item is products. So, you can build the path including the item name and search for the item: /sitecore/content/my site/products/{item name here}