Question

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ASP.NET MVC – Can i have multiple names for the same action?

I was wondering if its possible to have two actions point to the same ActionResult in a controller, like so:

[HttpPost]
[ActionName("ManualSearch")]
[ActionName("AddProduct")]
public virtual ActionResult MyPostAction(MyModel model) 
{

// do code...

}

The reason for doing this is because I have 2 views that each process an action differently but they both contain a form, which essentially is doing the same thing, so I was wondering to just make those 2 forms POST to the same action, like I tried above, only apparently its not possible to duplicate the ActionName attribute.

Answer 1

Why not to create two different actions and a private method called by the two?

public ActionResult Action1(MyModel model)
{
     return PrivateAction(model);
}

public ActionResult Action2(MyModel model)
{
     return PrivateAction(model);
}

private ActionResult PrivateAction(MyModel model)
{
      .... do stuff....
}

I think easiest things are the most reliable 😉