ASP.NET MVC URL Routing with parameters in the middle

Question

I have a controller called Quote, with an Index method that requires a requestId parameter. The URL appears as such

/Quote/{requestId}. 

Additionally, I have a method called ApplicantInfo which is specific to the quote and routes as such

/Quote/{requestId}/ApplicantInfo. 

But when I use the Url.Action helper like so

@Url.Action("Index","Quote",new { requestId = {requestId}})

It gives me a url of

/Quote/ApplicantInfo?requestId={requestId} 

which does not route correctly.

Obviously, I can manually create the URL string, but before I throw in the towel I wanted to know if I was missing something, for instance an override to the Url.Action method that will output the correct Url.

TIA

ROUTES

routes.MapRoute(
 "QuoteInfo",
 "Quote/{requestid}", 
 new { controller = "Quote", action="Index" });
routes.MapRoute(
 "QuoteApplicant",
 "Quote/{requestid}/ApplicantInfo", 
 new { controller = "Quote", action = "ApplicantInfo" });
routes.MapRoute(
 "Default",
 "{controller}/{action}/{id}", 
 new { controller = "Home", action="Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional });

• Evan: can you show me your RegisterRoutes method in RouteConfig if you do all your routings here?

Answer 1

I was able to get do something similar to this like this

Route

Define a route in Global.asax.cs or whereeve you override your routes

 routes.MapRoute(
 "Organization_default",
 "{controller}/{requestId}/{action}", 
 new { 
 controller = "home", 
 action = "index", 
 requestId = "default",
 id = UrlParameter.Optional 
 }, null);

Controller

 public ActionResult Question(string requestId)
 {
 ViewData["value"] = requestId;
 return View();
 }

View

@{
 ViewBag.Title = "Index";
 var value = ViewData["value"];
}
<h2>Stackoverflow @value</h2>
@Html.ActionLink("Click Here", 
 "question", "StackOverflow", new { requestId ="Link" }, new{ @id="link"})

Screenshot

screenshot of how the links appear with this route, I defined the enter image description here

Catch

You CANNOT have another route as {controller}/{action}/{key} defined before your custom this route. If you do the other route override your custom route.

If you need both the routes to co-exist then you would have to define a separate Area and define your custom route overriding RegisterArea

public override void RegisterArea(AreaRegistrationContext context)
{
 //..custom route definition
}

• Peter Lange: Thanks, this got me where I needed to be.