Question

I have been trying out the NameValueDeserializer from MVCContrib, which will take a IList as a parameter to a controller and bind a form and its elements to it, but I was just wondering if MVC Beta had any way of doing this??

I know you can bind a strongly typed Object but I want to bind a List of these Objects for some bulk editing situations.

eg.

public void Save(IList<Item> items) {     foreach (Item i in items)     {         //Save item     } } 

Is this possible in MVC Beta??

Answer 1

Yes it is, I wrote a detailed blog post about it here. It’s really easy for simple types. For complex types, you’d need to do something like:

<input type='hidden' name='products.Index' value='0' /> <input type='text' name='products[0].Name' value='Beer' /> <input type='text' name='products[0].Price' value='7.32' />  <input type='hidden' name='products.Index' value='1' /> <input type='text' name='products[1].Name' value='Chips' /> <input type='text' name='products[1].Price' value='2.23' />  <input type='hidden' name='products.Index' value='2' /> <input type='text' name='products[2].Name' value='Salsa' /> <input type='text' name='products[2].Price' value='1.23' />