Question

I have two models – category and article. I have pretty much the same delete views and controllers for both of them. The only difference is that it works for categories, but with articles I get empty model on HttpPost.

Categories:

    public ActionResult DeleteCat(int id)
    {
        Category cat = db.CategoryByID(id);
        if (cat != null)
        {
            return View(cat);
        }

        return RedirectToAction("Index");
    }

    [HttpPost]
    public ActionResult DeleteCat(Category model)
    {
        db.DeleteCategory(model.CategoryID);

        return RedirectToAction("Index");
    }

Articles:

    public ActionResult Delete(int id)
    {
        Article art = db.ArticleByID(id);
        if (art != null)
        {
            return View(art);
        }

        return RedirectToAction("Index");

    }

    [HttpPost]
    public ActionResult Delete(Article model)
    {
        db.DeleteArticle(model.ArticleID);

        return RedirectToAction("Index");
    }

Both views are generated by Visual Studio and I haven’t changed them. When I want to delete a category, everything goes well. But when I want to delete an article, it first gets selected properly from database, then the view is displayed (everything is OK) but when I click the delete button the model is empty (all properties are either 0, null or false) and so the db.DeleteArticle throws an exception (there’s no article with ArticleID = 0). Could anyone please provide me with any hints as to what should I check or how should I work around this?

Answer 1

There are two primary ways this can happen.

One way is that you have custom model binding that is not working. I assume you are doing everything out-of-the-box so this wouldn’t apply.

The most likely issue is that the data is not getting POSTed. Ensure that the fields exist inside the same Form that the Delete button is POSTing.