RedirectToAction usage in asp.net mvc

Question

I want to post some questions about ASP.Net MVC. I am not familiar with web developing, But I was assigned to the web part of a project. We are doing the following: first, we create get & set properties for the person data:

public class Person {     public int personID {get;set;}     public string personName {get;set;}     public string nric {get;set;} } 

and after login, we put the data in a class Person object and we use RedirectToAction like this:

return RedirectToAction("profile","person",new { personID = Person.personID}); 

It's working normally, but the parameter are shown in the URL. How can I hide them and also can I hide the action name? Guide me the right way with some examples, please.

Answer 1

The parameter are shown in the URL because that is what the third parameter to RedirectToAction is - the route values.

The default route is {controller}/{action}/{id}

So this code:

return RedirectToAction("profile","person",new { personID = Person.personID}); 

Will produce the following URL/route:

/Person/Profile/123

If you want a cleaner route, like this (for example):

/people/123

Create a new route:

routes.MapRoute("PersonCleanRoute",                 "people/{id}",                 new {controller = "Person", action = "Profile"}); 

And your URL should be clean, like the above.

Alternatively, you may not like to use ID at all, you can use some other unique identifier - like a nickname.

So the URL could be like this:

people/rpm1984

To do that, just change your route:

routes.MapRoute("PersonCleanRoute",                     "people/{nickname}",                     new {controller = "Person", action = "Profile"}); 

And your action method:

public ActionResult Profile(string nickname) {  } 

And your RedirectToAction code:

return RedirectToAction("profile","person",new { nickname = Person.nickname}); 

Is that what your after?