Question

I currently am writing a web app that needs to pass some configuration settings from a settings page to a page page with a search box.

Currently I’m passing the config data from the settings page to the home page with:

public ActionResult Settings(Configuration configuration)
{
    return RedirectToAction("ConfigSet", "Home", configuration);
}

And in the home controller:

public ActionResult ConfigSet(Configuration configuration)
{            
    return View("Index");
}

I’m generating a partial view with:

    public PartialViewResult Search(string q)
    {
        List<Stuff> results = this.Search(q);
        return PartialView("SearchResults", results);
    }

With the partial view rendered like so:

@using (Ajax.BeginForm("Search", "Home", new AjaxOptions {
HttpMethod = "GET",
InsertionMode = InsertionMode.Replace,
UpdateTargetId = "searchResults",
}))
{
    <input type="text" name="searchString" />
    <input type="submit" value="Search" />
}

My question is how would i pass the configuration settings to the partial view? I’ve been thinking about this for a couple of days and am really confused about it.

Answer 1

You can create a viewModel which will store your configuration setting like this

public class MyViewModel
{
   public Configuration configuration {get;set;}
   public List<Stuff> results {get;set;} 
}

& in your action return MyViewModel

public PartialViewResult Search(Configuration config)     
{
  var model = new  MyViewModel();
  //set its properties       
  model.results = this.Search(q);    
  model.configuration = configurationObject;     
  return PartialView("SearchResults", model);     
} 

if you again want to pass configuration to controller then

@using (Ajax.BeginForm("Search", "Home", new { config = Model.configuration } new AjaxOptions { HttpMethod = "GET", InsertionMode = InsertionMode.Replace, UpdateTargetId = "searchResults", })) 
{     
     <input type="text" name="searchString" />     
     <input type="submit" value="Search" /> 
}