Generally, when you find yourself fighting against a framework standard practices, it is time to reconsider your approach. In this case, the behavior of ModelState. For instance, when you don't want model state after a POST, consider a redirect to the get.
[HttpPost]
public ActionResult Edit(MyCmsPage page, string submitButton)
{
if (ModelState.IsValid) {
SomeRepository.SaveChanges(page);
return RedirectToAction("GenerateSeoTitle",new { page.Id });
}
return View(page);
}
public ActionResult GenerateSeoTitle(int id) {
var page = SomeRepository.Find(id);
page.GenerateSeoTitle();
return View("Edit",page);
}
EDITED to answer culture comment:
Here is what I use to handle a multi-cultural MVC application. First the route handler subclasses:
public class SingleCultureMvcRouteHandler : MvcRouteHandler {
protected override IHttpHandler GetHttpHandler(RequestContext requestContext)
{
var culture = requestContext.RouteData.Values["culture"].ToString();
if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(culture))
{
culture = "en";
}
var ci = new CultureInfo(culture);
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = ci;
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture(ci.Name);
return base.GetHttpHandler(requestContext);
}
}
public class MultiCultureMvcRouteHandler : MvcRouteHandler
{
protected override IHttpHandler GetHttpHandler(RequestContext requestContext)
{
var culture = requestContext.RouteData.Values["culture"].ToString();
if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(culture))
{
culture = "en";
}
var ci = new CultureInfo(culture);
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = ci;
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture(ci.Name);
return base.GetHttpHandler(requestContext);
}
}
public class CultureConstraint : IRouteConstraint
{
private string[] _values;
public CultureConstraint(params string[] values)
{
this._values = values;
}
public bool Match(HttpContextBase httpContext,Route route,string parameterName,
RouteValueDictionary values, RouteDirection routeDirection)
{
// Get the value called "parameterName" from the
// RouteValueDictionary called "value"
string value = values[parameterName].ToString();
// Return true is the list of allowed values contains
// this value.
return _values.Contains(value);
}
}
public enum Culture
{
es = 2,
en = 1
}
And here is how I wire up the routes. After creating the routes, I prepend my subagent (example.com/subagent1, example.com/subagent2, etc) then the culture code. If all you need is the culture, simply remove the subagent from the route handlers and routes.
public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
{
routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");
routes.IgnoreRoute("Content/{*pathInfo}");
routes.IgnoreRoute("Cache/{*pathInfo}");
routes.IgnoreRoute("Scripts/{pathInfo}.js");
routes.IgnoreRoute("favicon.ico");
routes.IgnoreRoute("apple-touch-icon.png");
routes.IgnoreRoute("apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png");
/* Dynamically generated robots.txt */
routes.MapRoute(
"Robots.txt", "robots.txt",
new { controller = "Robots", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
);
routes.MapRoute(
"Sitemap", // Route name
"{subagent}/sitemap.xml", // URL with parameters
new { subagent = "aq", controller = "Default", action = "Sitemap"}, new[] { "aq3.Controllers" } // Parameter defaults
);
routes.MapRoute(
"Rss Feed", // Route name
"{subagent}/rss", // URL with parameters
new { subagent = "aq", controller = "Default", action = "RSS"}, new[] { "aq3.Controllers" } // Parameter defaults
);
/* remap wordpress tags to mvc blog posts */
routes.MapRoute(
"Tag", "tag/{title}",
new { subagent = "aq", controller = "Default", action = "ThreeOhOne", id = UrlParameter.Optional}, new[] { "aq3.Controllers" }
).RouteHandler = new MultiCultureMvcRouteHandler(); ;
routes.MapRoute(
"Custom Errors", "Error/{*errorType}",
new { controller = "Error", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional}, new[] { "aq3.Controllers" }
);
/* dynamic images not loaded from content folder */
routes.MapRoute(
"Stock Images",
"{subagent}/Images/{*filename}",
new { subagent = "aq", controller = "Image", action = "Show", id = UrlParameter.Optional, culture = "en"}, new[] { "aq3.Controllers" }
);
/* localized routes follow */
routes.MapRoute(
"Localized Images",
"Images/{*filename}",
new { subagent = "aq", controller = "Image", action = "Show", id = UrlParameter.Optional}, new[] { "aq3.Controllers" }
).RouteHandler = new MultiCultureMvcRouteHandler();
routes.MapRoute(
"Blog Posts",
"Blog/{*postname}",
new { subagent = "aq", controller = "Blog", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional}, new[] { "aq3.Controllers" }
).RouteHandler = new MultiCultureMvcRouteHandler();
routes.MapRoute(
"Office Posts",
"Office/{*address}",
new { subagent = "aq", controller = "Offices", action = "Address", id = UrlParameter.Optional }, new[] { "aq3.Controllers" }
).RouteHandler = new MultiCultureMvcRouteHandler();
routes.MapRoute(
"Default", // Route name
"{controller}/{action}/{id}", // URL with parameters
new { subagent = "aq", controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }, new[] { "aq3.Controllers" } // Parameter defaults
).RouteHandler = new MultiCultureMvcRouteHandler();
foreach (System.Web.Routing.Route r in routes)
{
if (r.RouteHandler is MultiCultureMvcRouteHandler)
{
r.Url = "{subagent}/{culture}/" + r.Url;
//Adding default culture
if (r.Defaults == null)
{
r.Defaults = new RouteValueDictionary();
}
r.Defaults.Add("culture", Culture.en.ToString());
//Adding constraint for culture param
if (r.Constraints == null)
{
r.Constraints = new RouteValueDictionary();
}
r.Constraints.Add("culture", new CultureConstraint(Culture.en.ToString(), Culture.es.ToString()));
}
}
}
