Question

i wish to have a simple Action in my controller that accepts a few optional values and some integer values.

this is my route i wish to have:

HTTP.POST
/review/create

and this is the Action method i would like…

[AcceptVerbs(HttpVerbs.Post)]
public JsonResult Create(int userId,
                         int addressId,
                         byte baseScore,
                         byte reviewType,
                         string subject,
                         string description)
{ ... }

I’m under the uneducated impression that all of those arguments above will be populated by the forms collection values … but it’s not happening. Also, I have no idea how I would write a route, to handle those … because those values are form post data….

here’s my global.asax….

routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");

    // Api - Search methods.
    routes.MapRoute(
        "Search Methods",
        "{controller}/{action}"
    );

In fact, the action method is never called because it doesn’t seem to find it 🙁

But, if create and action without any of those arguments, then it finds it ?????????

How would you write a route and action method to accept some require and some optional arguments, for the route /review/create ?

Answer 1

As far as i can see you may rewrite your controller action like this:

public ActionResult Create(int foo, int bar, byte blah, string name, int? xxx) {
    // code here
}

The ModelBinder will then ensure that foo,bar and blah are set. Name and xxx may be null. I can’t test it a the moment, but i think return type of the action should be ActionResult.