Question

I have a Create ActionMethod, something along the lines of:

[AcceptVerbs(HttpVerbs.Post)]
public ActionMethod Create(Journey journey)
{
  if (Request.IsAjaxRequest())
  {
    //Save values
    return Json(new { JourneyID = journey.JourneyID } );
  }
}

The Journey object that I pass in is from my LINQ2SQL datamodel. I call the above ActionMethod from my Javascript using the JQuery.Post function, like:

var journeyData = {
    CustomerID: $('#CustomerID').val(),
    JourneyID: $('#JourneyID').val(),
    EstimatedTravelTime: $('#EstimatedTravelTime').val(),
    RouteName: $('#RouteName').val(),
    .....
};

$.post('/Journey/Create',
  journeyData,
  function(jsonResult) {
    //deal with result
  },
  'json'
);

The issue that I am having is that in the ActionMethod Journey.RouteName is always returning as null but the JSON that I pass back has a value, I check this using

alert(JSON.stringify(journeyData));

and in the resultant JSON object RouteName has a value, e.g. ‘Go to work’. Any ideas why this wouldn’t be being set in the ActionMethod? All other values that I pass back are being set fine.

Answer 1

Just a try and error suggestion:

First thing i would try is to rename “RouteName” param with somethign different, as “RouteName” is also a property of some MVC-redirect methods..