Routing to the actions with same names but different parameters

Question

I have this set of routes:

        routes.MapRoute(
            \"IssueType\",
            \"issue/{type}\",
            new { controller = \"Issue\", action         


        

Answer 1

I would have one Index method that looks for a valid type variable

    public class IssueController : Controller  
{  
    public ActionResult Index(string type)  
    {  
        if(string.isNullOrEmpty(type)){
            return View("viewWithOutType");}
        else{
            return View("viewWithType");} 
    }
}

EDIT:

How about creating a custom attribute that looks for a specific request value as in this post StackOverflow

[RequireRequestValue("someInt")] 
public ActionResult MyMethod(int someInt) { /* ... */ } 

[RequireRequestValue("someString")] 
public ActionResult MyMethod(string someString) { /* ... */ } 

public class RequireRequestValueAttribute : ActionMethodSelectorAttribute { 
    public RequireRequestValueAttribute(string valueName) { 
        ValueName = valueName; 
    } 
    public override bool IsValidForRequest(ControllerContext controllerContext, MethodInfo methodInfo) { 
        return (controllerContext.HttpContext.Request[ValueName] != null); 
    } 
    public string ValueName { get; private set; } 
}