Question

In my web application I will have a route like :

http://server/requests/info/{id}-{guidPart} (a string)

So I thought Id be clever and make a route so I did :

routes.MapRoute(
    name: "Info",
    url: "{controller}/{action}/{id}-{guidPart}",
                defaults: new { controller = "Requests", action = "Info", id = 0, guidPart = "" }
);

Then I thought, why do I need to specify defaults, why not have it all fixed except the last part :

routes.MapRoute(
    name: "Info",
    url: "requests/info/{id}-{guidPart}"
);

But when I go to a url like :

http://server/requests/info/123-abc123

It fails and says :

404 Resource not found.

Any tips on what I am doing wrong?

Answer 1

You can have a static route, but you still have to specify which Controller and Action to route to by default.

routes.MapRoute(
name: "Info",
url: "requests/info/{id}-{guidPart}",
defaults: new { controller = "Requests", action = "Info", id = 0, guidPart = ""}); 

The difference between this and the defaults above is that this UriTemplate will only try to match a Uri starting with “requests/info/”