Question

I have an Asp.Net Mvc website that has a listing controller. The route looks like this:

routes.MapRoute(
    "Default", // Route name
    "{controller}/{action}/{id}", // URL with parameters
    new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional },
    new string[] { "MySite.Web.Controllers" }
);

Pretty standard. Now I have a number of controller actions in my listing controller. I would like to be able to either go to /listing/84 and have it go to the Index action or to /listing/create, /listing/edit, /listing/favorite, or /listing/others and have it go to the the corresponding actions. For most of my routes this is already the case. This is my controller code:

public ActionResult Index(long? id)
{
    // my code that never gets hit
}

Am I missing something?

Answer 1

You could define a specific route for this and a constraint for the id:

routes.MapRoute(
    "ActionLess",
    "{controller}/{id}",
    new { controller = "Home", action = "Index" },
    new { id = @"^[0-9]+$" },
    new string[] { "MySite.Web.Controllers" }
);

routes.MapRoute(
    "Default", // Route name
    "{controller}/{action}/{id}", // URL with parameters
    new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional },
    new string[] { "MySite.Web.Controllers" }
);