Routing: How to hide action name in url?

Question

In the MVC default route

routes.MapRoute(
            "Default", // Route name
            "{controller}/{action}/{id}", // URL with parameters
            new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional } // Parameter defaults
        );

whenever the index action is accessed, the url is not showing the action name when the "Index" action is accessed.

I would like to get that behaviour on a different controller, which is retrieving data for a single item. I would like the default action to be named "get" and for this action I would like the url not to display the action name, just the controller and the item id.

I thought that a similar route to the one above, like this:

routes.MapRoute(
            "item_details",
            "item/{action}/{id}",
            new { controller = "item", action = "Get" }
            );

would do the trick, but it gives me a url like localhost:xxxx/item/Get/152... What am I missing?

Answer 1

Try this:

routes.MapRoute(
        "item_details",
        "item/{id}",
        new { controller = "item", action = "Get" }
        );