Question

I want to create a custom route, as a default mvc creates route like this:

domain.com/deals/detail/5

but in my case i want to create a custom route for it:

domain.com/delicious-food-in-paris

so it has to look for deals controller’s detail action with passing an id value 5 to it.

how can i do it?

Thanks

Answer 1

This route maps all one segment urls to the detail method of the deals controller and passes one string argument called dealName to it:

routes.MapRoute(
        null,
        "{dealName}",
        new { controller = "deals", action = "detail" }            
    );

But as AdamD have said, you should register that route as the last route in your setup because it will catch all urls which have only one segment.

With this approach you have to lookup your deal by name which might be not acceptable. So many apps use a hybrid approach and include the name and the id in the url like this:

domain.com/deals/5-HereComesTheLongName

Then you can use a route like this to get the id and optionally the name:

routes.MapRoute(
        null,
        "{id}-{dealName}",
        new { 
          controller = "deals", 
          action = "detail", 
          dealName = UrlParameter.Optional
        }
    );