Switching to {controller}/{id}/{action} breaks RedirectToAction

Question

I am trying to use proper REST urls with MVC. To do that I switched default Routing from:

{controller}/{action}/{id}

Answer 1

I was having a similar problem. Route values that were passed to my controller action were being reused when I tried to redirect the user with RedirectToAction, even if I didn't specify them in the new RouteValueDictionary. The solution that I came up with (after reading counsellorben's post) with was to clear out the RouteData for the current request. That way, I could stop MVC from merging route values that I didn't specify.

So, in your situation maybe you could do something like this:

[CustomAuthorize]
[HttpGet]
public ActionResult Approve(int id)
{
    _customerService.Approve(id);
    this.RouteData.Values.Clear();  //clear out current route values
    return RedirectToAction("Search");  //Goes to bad url
}