Question

its me… yet again!

Ive got these class,

 public class PrankTargetArgumentViewModel
{
    public PrankTarget Target { get; set; }
    public PrankDefinition Prank { get; set; }
    public List<PrankArgument> Arguments { get; set; }
}

public class PrankArgument
{
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public string Value { get; set; }
}

and what I’m doing is – if this current ParkDefinition needs arguments them im doing an ActionRedirect on the save to another Action which should handle the gathering of the Arguments

My Action result is like this..

    public ActionResult PrankArguments()
    {
        PrankInstance currentInstance = SessionContext.CurrentPrankInstance;

        if (currentInstance == null)
            throw new ArgumentNullException("currentInstance");

        PrankTargetArgumentViewModel model = new PrankTargetArgumentViewModel();
        model.Prank = currentInstance.Prank;
        model.Target = currentInstance.Target;

        string[] args = model.Prank.Arguments.Split('|');

        model.Arguments = new List<PrankArgument>();
        foreach (string s in args)
        {
            model.Arguments.Add(new PrankArgument { Name = s, Value = s });
        }

        return View(model);
    }

my http post method is just an empty method with the parameter of PrankTargetArgumentViewModel

    [HttpPost]
    public ActionResult PrankArguments(PrankTargetArgumentViewModel model)
    { 
        return View();
    }

My HTML is like this..

@using (Html.BeginForm())
{
@Html.EditorFor(x => Model)  

<p>
    <input type="submit" value="Create" />
</p>
}

So my problem is this, on the PrankArguments(PrankTargetArgumentViewModel model) post back action, the model param is always null.. I’ve filled the object with values on the load so I guessed they would be there on the post back with the new arguments that I added.

so the flow goes like this.

Create Prank
If prank needs arguments then load ActionResult PrankArguments()
Add extra arguments to an already poplulated object.
save, Call ActionResult PrankArguments(PrankTargetArgumentViewModel model)
— this is where the problem is, the model parameter is passed back as null.

Ive had this problem quite a few times and always just given up but im not going to let that happen this time!

any help would be great! cheers, Ste!

Ps. If you need anymore of my code just let me know.

EDIT – Removed view bag debug properties!

Answer 1

After reviewing my own code – I noticed that I didn’t need the entire PrankTargetArgumentViewModel and a simple List of Arguments would have been fine.

I alterd my PrankArguments view to take an IEnumerable and used;

@using (Html.BeginForm())
{
@Html.EditorForModel()

<p>
    <input type="submit" value="Finish" />
</p>
}

then had my post back method signature like this

 [HttpPost]
 public ActionResult PrankArguments(IEnumerable<PrankArgument> arguments)

which worked exactly how I wanted.

Thanks for all the suggestions guys.