Call function after routeconfig in MVC controller

Question

I have done a route configuration with MVC. The route is so defined:

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

The problem is that when i call a javascript function from the view Boxes, all the function i call are redirected to the Index function.

For example, if i call var url = "/Boxes/ReturnPrice"; the site don't call this function but the index function.

The index function in boxesController is so defined:

public ActionResult Index()
{

//Code here

return view();

}

Answer 1

When you call /Boxes/ReturnPrice , It matches your "Box" route definition. the framework will map "ReturnPrice" from the url to the id parameter !

You need to define a route constraint which tells that your id property is of type int ( I assume it is int in your case) . Also you need to make sure that you have a generic route definition exists to handle your normal requests with the format controllername/actionmethodname.

You can define the route constraint when defining the route using regex.

routes.MapRoute(
   name: "Box",
   url: "boxes/{id}",
   defaults: new { controller = "Boxes", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional },
   constraints: new { id = @"\d+" }
);
routes.MapRoute(
     "Default",
     "{controller}/{action}/{id}",
     new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
);

With this Boxes/ReturnPrice will go to ReturnPrice action method while Boxes/5 will go to Index action method with value 5 set to Id param.