Calling Plugin gives error. RouteProvider?

Hi Everyone,

I'm having a problem on calling a simple hello world plugin. (Controller Action retruns a View)

Structure:

Pacoliba.Plugin.Catalog.ProductOverview
--- Controllers
------ CatalogProductOverviewController.cs
--- Models
--- Views
------ CatalogProductOverview
--------- ProductOverview.cshtml

This is the error i'm getting using - @Html.Action("GetProductOverview", "CatalogProductOverview") on the Index.cshtml of my theme:

The controller for path '/' was not found or does not implement IController.

RouteProvider:

namespace Pacoliba.Plugin.Catalog.ProductOverview
{
    class RouteProvider : IRouteProvider
    {

        public void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
        {
            routes.MapRoute("Pacoliba.Plugin.Catalog.ProductOverview.GetProductOverview",
                 "Plugins/CatalogProductOverview/GetProductOverview",
                 new { controller = "CatalogProductOverview", action = "GetProductOverview" },
                 new[] { "Pacoliba.Plugin.Catalog.CatalogProductOverview.Controllers" }
            );

        }
        public int Priority
        {
            get
            {
                return 0;
            }
        }
    }
}

Controller - CatalogProductOverviewController.cs:

namespace Pacoliba.Plugin.Catalog.ProductOverview.Controllers
{
    class CatalogProductOverviewController : Controller
    {

        public ActionResult GetProductOverview(){

            return View("Pacoliba.Plugin.Catalog.ProductOverview.Views.CatalogProductOverview.ProductOverview");

        }

    }


}

View - ProductOverview.cshtml:

<div>
    hello world
</div>

As you can see, it's a quite simple example because i'm just getting started on developing plugins. Does someone knows what i'm doing wrong?

Kind Regards

I'm pretty sure you can't directly reference plugins like that from a theme.

Hi AndyMcKenna,

Thx for replying. Recently I've purchased an extension plugin form nop-templates.com and followed this documentation to implement. I was able to implement the filters in my theme using this bit of code:

@section nopAjaxFilters
{
        @Html.Action("GetFilters", "NopAjaxFilters")
}

So I've thought this was possible? I'm still getting the same error over and over again.

Kind Regards

No, it just looks like I'm wrong.

I'm fairly new to the MVC architecture, but learning as much as I can recently along with nopCommerce. (keep that in mind :))

In your route provider I think you have the namespace incorrect for your controller. The last argument for MapRoute() is a string array of namespaces, yours is:

new[] { "Pacoliba.Plugin.Catalog.CatalogProductOverview.Controllers" }

I think it should be:

new[] { "Pacoliba.Plugin.Catalog.ProductOverview.Controllers" }

weega wrote:

Hi weega,

Thx for replying. You were right about the namespace of my plugin, but i'm still getting the same error after changing. Strange...
Is there someone who has developed a simple plugin so i can take a look at the code?

Kind regards.

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