Question

How do I store a list of data that is submitted to a controller for about an hour in memory, so I can call another action and pull this data?

Reason for this: I need to show a demo application, no time to write up the database logic. So I want to simulate a database with a list of objects.

For eg. I send a list of Persons { FirstName, LastName} to a controller action ‘Create’ to temporarily store it in a list.

I then call another controller action ‘GetPeople’ at a later time to retrieve this list of Persons.

Answer 1

public static class PeopleRepository
{
    private static List<Person> people;

    static PeopleRepository()
    {
        people = new List<Person>();
        // some test data
        people.Add(new Person { FirstName = "Foo", LastName = "Bar" });
        // ...
    }
    public static void AddPerson(Person p)
    {
        people.Add(p);
    }
    public static List<Person> GetPersons()
    {
        return people;
    }
}