ASP.NET MVC route

Question

I have only default route enabled:

routes.MapRoute(
            name: "Default",
            url: "{controller}/{action}/{id}",
            defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
        );

Which will resove paths like: hostname/Home/Index, hostname/Home/Foo, hostname/Home/Bar/23 just fine.
But I must also enable route like this: hostname/{id} which should point to:
Controller: Home
Action: Index
{id}: Index action parameter "id"

Is such a route even possible?

Tallmaris · Accepted Answer · 2013-11-22 11:34:59Z

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If id is a number you could add a route above the other one and define a regex constraint:

routes.MapRoute(
    name: "IdOnlyRoute",
    url: "{id}",
    defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Index" },
    constraints: new { id = "^[0-9]+$" }
);

answered Nov 22, 2013 at 11:34

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dakt Over a year ago

Nope, it's a string :)

Tallmaris Over a year ago

If it is a string with some particular constraints, you can still use the solution above... if it is just a string like anything else then you may be out of luck.

Vishal Sharma · Accepted Answer · 2013-11-22 11:51:54Z

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Not Tested : Create your route like this

routes.MapRoute(
        name: "custom",
        url: "{controller}/{id}",
        defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
    );

under your default route

edited Nov 22, 2013 at 11:51

answered Nov 22, 2013 at 11:33

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dakt Over a year ago

That just killed all my AJAX calls :)

Vishal Sharma Over a year ago

what's url u r request in ajax?

dakt Over a year ago

I have couple of them: /Home/Register/{param}, /Home/Login/{param}, etc

Vishal Sharma Over a year ago

the route i have given you is after the default route also name should be changed

dakt · Accepted Answer · 2013-11-22 14:30:21Z

Since I'm short on time, I have configured route for every action. Luckly there are not many of them. :)

        routes.MapRoute(
            name: "IndexWithParam",
            url: "{id}",
            defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
        );

        routes.MapRoute(
            name: "IndexWithOutParam",
            url: "",
            defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Index" }
        );

        routes.MapRoute(
            name: "Login",
            url: "Home/Login",
            defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Login" }
        );

So last route was repeated for ever other action. Not sure if it can be done better, but it works.

tony · Accepted Answer · 2013-11-22 23:29:38Z

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Have you tried to play around with AttributeRouting package?

Then your code will look like this

    [GET("/{id}", IsAbsoluteUrl = true)]
    public ActionResult Index(string id) { /* ... */ }

edited Nov 22, 2013 at 23:29

answered Nov 22, 2013 at 23:14

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