Question

I need to POST a Guid and an int value onto an MVC3 site.

What is the simplest way to do it?

I am using an HttpWebRequest instance on a client side.
So far I am thinking to just POST to an action-mapped URL, and include both data units as JSON data.

How do I process such case in an MVC3 action?

Answer 1

If you’re trying to allow a user to submit data (I couldn’t quite tell if this is what you meant from your question – if not, please clarify), you can do something like this:

@Html.BeginForm("ActionName", "ControllerName", new { guid = "your-guid-value" , myInt = 4 }) { 
  @* Your Form - Set those values here. *@ 
}

Your Controller method would be:

public ActionResult ActionName(string guid, int myInt) { 
  /* Do whatever you need with the data and return the appropriate view */
}

Of course, the other alternative, depending on your needs, is create a strongly-typed view and use an object (rather than a string and an int value) to handle the data.