I am trying to use proper REST urls with MVC. To do that I switched default Routing from:
{controller}/{action}/{id}
to
{controller}/{id}/{action}
so instead of:
/Customer/Approve/23
there is now
/Customer/23/Approve
ActionLink seems to work ok, but the following code in CustomerController:
[CustomAuthorize]
[HttpGet]
public ActionResult Approve(int id)
{
_customerService.Approve(id);
return RedirectToAction("Search"); //Goes to bad url
}
ends up on url /Customer/23/Search. While it should be going to /Customer/Search. Somehow it remembers 23 (id).
Here is my routing code in global.cs
routes.MapRoute(
"AdminRoute", // Route name
"{controller}/{id}/{action}",
new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional },
new { id = new IsIntegerConstraint() }
);
routes.MapRoute(
"Default",
"{controller}/{action}",
new { controller = "Home", action = "Index" });
If I switch the two functions, RedirectToAction starts working, but using:
Html.ActionLink("Approve", "Approve", new { Id = 23})
Now generates /Customer/Approve?id=23, instead of /Customer/23/Approve.
I could specify direct urls like ~/Customer/23/Approve, instead of using ActionLink and RedirectToAction, but would rather stick to functions provided by MVC.