Question

my index looks like this with page model which accepts list of objects

@model List<MyProject.Domain.Object>

@Html.Partial("PickDatePartial") 
@Html.Partial("ObjectPartial", Model)

My problem is within this first partial page, cause this partial page accept not list but single @model MyProject.Domain.Object

How can I achive this, in this current situation index page cannot be rendered cause it expect to receive list of objects.

Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

Well, one quick and dirty thing you could to is pass the first object to PickDatePartial

@Html.Partial("PickDatePartial", Model.First())

This is however not very clean. I would recommend creating a view model with two properties, 1) the whole list, 2) the one to be bound by PickDatePartial:

public class IndexViewModel
{
    public List<MyProject.Domain.Object> MyList { get; set; }
    public MyProject.Domain.Object ObjectToBind { get; set; }
}

Then in your Index action on your controller:

public ActionResult Index()
{
    var myList = // instantiate list here
    var viewModel = new IndexViewModel
    {
        MyList = myList,
        ObjectToBind = myList.First() // or whichever you need out of that list
    }

    return View(viewModel);
}

You’ll need to change the type of the model on the Index view, of course. Now the Index view looks like this:

@model IndexViewModel

@Html.Partial("PickDatePartial", Model.ObjectToBind) 
@Html.Partial("ObjectPartial", Model.MyList)