Create an Alias from the Recipe in Orchard - orchardcms

Question

I want to create the following Alias from the recipe.
How is this achieved?

Answer 1

I have created this class to add a command for Orchard to create a new alias from command line or recipe:
using Orchard;
using Orchard.Alias;
using Orchard.Commands;
using System;
using Orchard.Environment;
using System.Linq;
namespace Contrib.Foundation.Common.Commands
{
public class AliasCommands : DefaultOrchardCommandHandler
{
private readonly Work<WorkContext> _workContext;
private readonly IAliasService _aliasService;
public AliasCommands(Work<WorkContext> workContext, IAliasService aliasService,
IOrchardServices orchardServices)
{
_workContext = workContext;
_aliasService = aliasService;
Services = orchardServices;
}
public IOrchardServices Services { get; private set; }
[OrchardSwitch]
public string AliasPath { get; set; }
[OrchardSwitch]
public string RoutePath { get; set; }
[CommandName("alias add")]
[CommandHelp("alias add /AliasPath:<alias-path> /RoutePath:<route-path>\r\n\t" + "Add a new alias")]
[OrchardSwitches("AliasPath,RoutePath")]
public void Add()
{
AliasPath = AliasPath.TrimStart('/', '\\');
if (String.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(AliasPath))
{
AliasPath = "/";
}
if (String.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(RoutePath))
{
Context.Output.WriteLine(T("Route can't be empty"));
return;
}
if (CheckAndWarnIfAliasExists(AliasPath))
{
Context.Output.WriteLine(T("Alias already exist"));
return;
}
try
{
_aliasService.Set(AliasPath, RoutePath, "Custom");
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
Services.TransactionManager.Cancel();
Context.Output.WriteLine(T("An error occured while creating the alias {0}: {1}. Please check the values are correct.", AliasPath, ex.Message));
return;
}
Context.Output.WriteLine(T("Alias {0} created.", AliasPath));
}
private string GetExistingPathForAlias(string aliasPath)
{
var routeValues = _aliasService.Get(aliasPath.TrimStart('/', '\\'));
if (routeValues == null) return null;
return _aliasService.LookupVirtualPaths(routeValues, _workContext.Value.HttpContext)
.Select(vpd => vpd.VirtualPath)
.FirstOrDefault();
}
private bool CheckAndWarnIfAliasExists(string aliasPath)
{
var routePath = GetExistingPathForAlias(aliasPath);
if (routePath == null) return false;
return true;
}
}
}
You can use it in a recipe like this:
<Command>
alias add /AliasPath:"/" /RoutePath:"mycontroller"
</Command>
Put the class inside your module and reference Orchard.Alias