Question

I have a Home ViewModel class which contains others class:

public class HomeVM
{
    public ProductSearchRequest ProductSearchRequest { get; set; }
    //Other class
    //Other class
    //Other class
}

My home/Index view has @model HomeVM, and there I have a search text input:

@using (Html.BeginForm("Search", "Product"))
{
    @Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.ProductSearchRequest.SearchText)
    <input type="submit" value="Search" />
}

But in my Product/Search I need to receive only ProductSearchRequest because there is other pages that uses other ViewModel but contains ProductSearchRequest.

I’m trying this:

public ActionResult Search(ProductSearchRequest request)
{
    var response = new ProductSearchResponse
    {
        SearchText = request.SearchText,
        Products = GetProductsByName(request.SearchText)
    };

    return View(response);
}

but it doesn’t work.. request.SearchText is always null..

How can I do this?

Answer 1

This is just a stab in the dark, but your action, try calling the parameter ‘ProductSearchRequest’

Or how about putting your whole form in a view for that action I.e. ‘Search’ that takes the ‘ProductSearchRequest’ as model?