Problems with ASP.Net MVC routes

Question

I have a problem with routes in MVC.

routes.MapRoute(
    name: "Default",
    url: "{controller}/{id}",
    defaults: new { controller = "Login", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
);

This route, for my pages, works (because I don’t want you to have an Index in the URL). However, when I need to call a backend method, I need to pass the action.

How can I create the routes to work the way I need to? For backend method calls, I need to pass the action and page URL, omit the action. And by default, the action called in page Urls is Index.

Answer 1

I solved with a "gambiarra": inverti ID with Action on the route, getting {controller}/{id}/{action}. So when I make a call on the backend, you always pass the item ID (or 0 when I don’t have).

I managed to solve my problem, but I don’t believe it’s the right way to do it.

Answer 2

I had the same problem recently, where I wanted to assemble an Admin, and main page of each area, would display the records of that entity.

It was like that:

/Admin/Contato/Listar/
/Admin/Postagens/Listar/

I wish it were so:

/Admin/Contato/
/Admin/Postagens/

For this I created another route, where I only passed the Controller as you did, and a more specific route where I defined the routes with Actions:

routes.MapRoute(
    name: "Listar",
    url: "Admin/{controller}/",
    defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Listar"}
);

routes.MapRoute(
    name: "Default",
    url: "Admin/{controller}/{action}/{id}",
    defaults: new { controller = "Login", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
);

I put it in this order to exemplify, but normally you have to add more specific routes first, and then the less specific ones.