Question

I have a project that can be accessed at the URL:

myapp.com/project/my-project

Route

To be able to use this route, I recorded the following in my Global.asax

routes.MapRoute(
    "Project", // Route name
    "Project/{url}/{action}", // URL with parameters
    new { controller = "Project", action = "Details" } // Parameter defaults
);

routes.MapRoute(
    "Default", // Route name
    "{controller}/{action}/{id}", // URL with parameters
    new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional } // Parameter defaults
);

Action

When you browse the URL ´myapp.com/project/create´, I would like to ´create´ action is called, not my ´details´ action.

But the URL myapp.com/project/my-project should usually be interpreted by the details action.

public ActionResult Details(string projectUrl)
{
    var project = _projectService.Get(projectUrl);

    if (project == null)
        //Not found! Redirect to next route!

    var model = Mapper.Map<ProjectViewModel>(project);

    return View(model);
}

Question

How to make, Create, Delete, Edit to be interpreted by the default route?

Answer 1

Here is the create route with your existing route:

routes.MapRoute(
    "ProjectCreate", // Route name
    "project/create", // URL with parameters
    new { controller = "Project", action = "Create" } // Parameter defaults
);

routes.MapRoute(
    "Project", // Route name
    "project/{url}/{action}", // URL with parameters
    new { controller = "Project", action = "Details" } // Parameter defaults
);

routes.MapRoute(
    "Default", // Route name
    "{controller}/{action}/{id}", // URL with parameters
    new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional } // Parameter defaults
);

Your project url parameter name should be url not projectUrl as that is the name of the route value.

Here is my ProjectController:

public ActionResult Details(string url)
{
    return View();
}

public ActionResult Create()
{
    return View();
}

The appropriate action is hit when I go to either of these URLs:

• /project/create
• /project/test
• /project/test/details

And pass “test” as the url value.

Its worth noting that routes are processed in the order they are added, so you need to make sure they go in order from most specific to most general like you have, and not reverse that.