Html.Action - Get versus Post

Question

I do this very often:

<div id='Product'>
@Html.Action("Create", "Product")
</div>

it's convenient because I can delegate the painting of a product creation form to another controller action for embedding in places. However, I'm having issues in that the method will sometimes (I haven't figured out under what conditions) call the [HttpPost] of my controller action, which of course fails.

Is there a way to force @Html.Action() to call the GET version?

Verlie

Answer 1

The way Html.Action works is that if the current request for the page is a post method then it will search for the method with the name HttpPost.

So what's happening is that you're POSTing the current page and the action likewise assumes all actions that should execute must be a POST too.

There's no way I know of to force it to switch to a different method like that.

Suspensor

yes, I did figure that out. that is a terrible assumption on their part. What I ended up doing is renaming the actions so that there's no ambiguity – Verlie

That's probably the best solution. Glad to be of help. – Suspensor

Answer 2

Try adding the AcceptVerbs attribute to your action:

[AcceptVerbs(HttpVerbs.Get|HttpVerbs.Post)]
public ActionResult Create()
{
    //Your code
}

This will work for both GET and POST requests.

Karilynn

hmm... yes but that would force me to code both behaviours into the same method... which means I would need a way to tell within the method whether a Post or Get was performed... how would this be done? – Verlie

Answer 3

I also got into a similar problem and there indeed is a solution. Just Check whether Request is get or POST in View using IsPost Property and VOILA....

@if(!IsPost)    
{    
    HTML.Action("ActionName")    
}

Regards to whoever got in similar problem...

Shea

Answer 4

I just encountered this issue, which was hard to identify. I ended up using Html.RenderPartial instead, like this:

<div id='Product'>
@{Html.RenderPartial("_CreatePartial", new Product());}
</div>

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