Routing: How to hide action name in url?

Question

In the MVC default route

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

whenever the index action is accessed, the url is not showing the action name when the "Index" action is accessed.

I would like to get that behaviour on a different controller, which is retrieving data for a single item. I would like the default action to be named "get" and for this action I would like the url not to display the action name, just the controller and the item id.

I thought that a similar route to the one above, like this:

routes.MapRoute(
            "item_details",
            "item/{action}/{id}",
            new { controller = "item", action = "Get" }
            );

would do the trick, but it gives me a url like localhost:xxxx/item/Get/152... What am I missing?

score 15 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 23 '12 at 08:15

15

Try this:

routes.MapRoute(
        "item_details",
        "item/{id}",
        new { controller = "item", action = "Get" }
        );

answered Jan 23 '12 at 08:15

robasta

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Done. Sorry, meant to do it yesterday, but with the minimum time imposed by SO I went home before I got to do it ;o) – yu_ominae Jan 24 '12 at 07:28
@robasta what if `item` is the name of my controller and I only want to hide specific action – Anonymous Duck Aug 13 '16 at 05:22
how to hide controller name from route? any idea? – Jaimin Dave Dec 28 '16 at 10:14
@robasta Why I get Not Found error if I type `item/Get/25` where id = 25? Anyway to let the route to accept with and without the action name, `Get`? – sky91 Feb 27 '17 at 09:57

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 02 '17 at 08:25

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Try this:

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

answered Aug 02 '17 at 08:25

saurav singh

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Irf · Answer 3 · 2019-09-16T09:01:12.693

For the users coming here as in ASP.NET MVC 5.2 days, it works when
you have id = UrlParameter.Optional added, at least for my case

 routes.MapRoute(
          name: "item_details",
          url: "item/{id}",
          defaults: new { controller = "item", action = "Get", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
        );

And if there are more routes in RouteConfig class, then move this to the top of other routes
or
You can also do:

routes.MapRoute(
               name: "item_details",
               url: "item",
               defaults: new { controller = "item", action = "Get", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
            );

Ref: this SO answer

Routing: How to hide action name in url?

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