Mapping route & parameters in ASP.NET MVC

Question

In Area VIPUsers I have controller ProfileController and other controllers.

If I want every method in ProfileController to have parameter (id) and every method in other controllers to have parameter (userid and id) how would I map it?

Would it be

context.MapRoute("ProfileMapping", "VIPUsers/Profile/{action}/{id}", 
new {controller="ManageUsers", id=""});

and then map a default one for all the controllers?

context.MapRoute("Default", "VIPUsers/{controller}/{action}/{userId}/{id}",
new {action="Index", userId="", id = ""});

and...that's it??? I see it's working but then it's weird... If I go to a page on ProfileController and give it two parameters after {action} (VIPUsers/Profile/SomeAction/4/4/), it'd use the second mapped route. Is that correct?

thanks

and if I want the url to always require a UserId, how do I specify that?

Answer 1

The behavior you are seeing is correct. You will want to implement some route constraints to further narrow things down:

http://www.asp.net/learn/mvc/tutorial-24-cs.aspx