Question

I have one view with a form and I want when a button will be clicked, the same view to be reloaded with new informations from the form’s textbox values. The new informations will be found in a database – I’m doing that in the controller.

So, I thought I should call an action method from the view.

But, I read that it is poor practice to transfer data from the view to the cantroller, since MVC is designed especially NOT for that.

Does someone have an idea how to design this?

Answer 1

Description

The View is called by the Controller. You can put a form in your View and send it to your ActionMethod on form submit, for example.

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Sample

Model

public class ViewModel
{
    public string SomeProperty { get; set; }
}

View

@model MvcApplication2.Models.ViewModel;

@using (Html.BeginForm())
{
    @Html.TextBoxFor(x => x.SomeProperty)
    <input type="submit" />
}

Controller with ActionMethods

public class HomeController : Controller
{
    [HttpGet]
    public ActionResult Index()
    {
        return View(new ViewModel());
    }

    [HttpPost]
    public ActionResult Index(ViewModel model)
    {
        // do something with your model
        // load from something from database for example
        return View(model);
    }
}

More Information

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