Question

I am passing an model from one controller method to another controller method to collect all the values to model fields. I am doing as shown below

[HttpPost]
    public ActionResult A(Model m, string s)
    {
        if (ModelState.IsValid) 
        {
            if (m.l == null || m.k == null)
            {
                //Do something.

            }
            else
                return View("B", m); // this is where by debug point comes...
        }

        return View(m);


    }


public ActionResult B(Model m)
    {

        return View(m);
    }

[HttpPost]
    public ActionResult B(Model m, string s)
    {
        if (ModelState.IsValid)
        {
            if (m.p == null || m.j == null)
            {
                //do something
            }
            else
            {
               // do something and redirect to somewhere else 
            }


        }

But as I have shown the debug point comes here as shown below.

return View("B", m);

This should hit the Controller method “B” But the problem is It does not hit the controller method “B”. But it shows the view for the Controller method “B” So, I am confused about this problem. And I can not see the values for (l,k) in the httppost of method “B”. What is the reason for this.

I want to know that, I am doing this right or wrong. If I am doing this wrong can you please explain on this for a bit. Can someone who is good at MVC help me.
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

That code — return View("B", m) — actually doesn’t redirect to the action B, it just renders the view B with the given model. If you want to execute the action, then you should use:

return B(m);