Custom routes and namespaces in MVC5 - asp.net-mvc-5

Question

I'm trying to implement some domain name logic in my existing MVC5 app. The problem I'm running in to is if I try to use my custom subclass from Route, it doesn't respect the Namespaces field and throws an error because I have 2 different User controllers.
As a control, this works perfectly fine:
routes.MapRoute("Login",
"login/",
new { controller = "User", action = "Login" },
new[] { "Quotes.Web.Controllers" });
My DomainRoute class inherits from Route and just adds a Domain property. Here is the relevant constructor:
public DomainRoute(string domain, string url, object defaults, string[] namespaces = null)
: base(url, new RouteValueDictionary(defaults), new MvcRouteHandler())
{
Domain = domain;
DataTokens = new RouteValueDictionary {["Namespaces"] = namespaces};
}
and I register it like:
var loginRoute = new DomainRoute(
domain,
"login/",
new { controller = "User", action = "Login" },
new[] { "Quotes.Web.Controllers" });
routes.Add("Login", loginRoute);
DataTokens looks identical between the working version and my broken version yet it seems to ignore the fact that my DomainRoute has a Namespace entry
Multiple types were found that match the controller named 'User'. This can happen if the route that services this request ('login/') does not specify namespaces to search for a controller that matches the request. If this is the case, register this route by calling an overload of the 'MapRoute' method that takes a 'namespaces' parameter.
What am I missing?

Answer 1

I think,this will help you, i had the same issue, solved this by adding the below code
var dataTokens = new RouteValueDictionary();
var ns = new string[] {"MyProject.Controllers"};
dataTokens["Namespaces"] = ns;
routes.Add("Default", new CultureRoute(
"{controller}/{action}/{id}",
new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional },
null /*constraints*/,
dataTokens
));

Answer 2

I switched my DomainRoute class with the much improved version found here: https://gist.github.com/IDisposable/77f11c6f7693f9d181bb
Now my route creation is just:
var clientRoutes = new DomainRouteCollection("mydomain",
"Quotes.Web.Controllers",
routes);
clientRoutes.MapRoute("Login", "login/", new { controller = "User", action = "Login" });
...which is more concise and even more importantly, it works.