I'm trying to call an action on a controller in an MVC project from a view and I get the following error:
This can happen when a controller uses RouteAttribute for routing, but no action on that controller matches the request
I've read some people have removed the attribute routing to get this to work but that seems a bit extreme. Does anyone know where to start with this one?
//Calling in view like so
#Html.Action("Edit", new { datablockId = 227 })
//THe controller
[RoutePrefix("CustomData")]
public class CustomDataController : Controller, ICustomDataController
{
[Route("Edit")]
[HttpGet]
public ActionResult Edit(int datablockId)
{
return this.PartialView(new CustomDataEditViewModel() { DataRows = Data, DataBlockId = datablockId });
}
}
Try routing the action to that particular controller explicitly like this:
#Html.Action("Edit", "CustomData" ,new { datablockId = 227 })
Html action accepts aditional parameters that might fix your routing issue, those parameters are: Html.Action("Action", "Controller", Parameters)
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I am trying to use Ajax to call a handler in my Razor page that returns the result of a ViewComponent, however when I try the code below, it says:
Non-invocable member "ViewComponent" cannot be used like a method.
public IActionResult OnGetPriceist()
{
return ViewComponent("PriceList", new { id= 5 });
}
When using MVC, the Controller base class includes a ViewComponent method, which is just a helper method that creates a ViewComponentResult for you. This method does not yet exist in the Razor Pages world, where instead you use PageModel as the base class.
One option to work around this is to create an extension method on the PageModel class, that would look something like this:
public static class PageModelExtensions
{
public static ViewComponentResult ViewComponent(this PageModel pageModel, string componentName, object arguments)
{
return new ViewComponentResult
{
ViewComponentName = componentName,
Arguments = arguments,
ViewData = pageModel.ViewData,
TempData = pageModel.TempData
};
}
}
Apart from it being an extension method, the code above is just ripped out of Controller. In order to use it, you can call it from your existing OnGetPriceList (typo fixed) method, like this:
public IActionResult OnGetPriceList()
{
return this.ViewComponent("PriceList", new { id = 5 });
}
The key to making it work here is to use this, which will resolve it to the extension method, rather than trying to invoke the constructor as a method.
If you're only going to use this once, you could forego the extension method and just embed the code itself inside of your handler. That's entirely up to you - some people might prefer the extension method for the whole separation-of-concerns argument.
I'm trying out building a web API with MVC 6. But when one of my controller methods throws an error, the content of the response is a really nicely formatted HTML page that would be very informative were this an MVC app. But since this is an API, I'd rather have some JSON returned instead.
Note: My setup is super basic right now, just setting:
app.UseStaticFiles();
app.UseIdentity();
// Add MVC to the request pipeline.
app.UseMvc();
I want to set this up universally. Is there a "right/best" way to set this up in MVC 6 for an API?
Thanks...
One way to achieve your scenario is to write an ExceptionFilter and in that capture the necessary details and set the Result to be a JsonResult.
// Here I am creating an attribute so that you can use it on specific controllers/actions if you want to.
public class CustomExceptionFilterAttribute : ExceptionFilterAttribute
{
public override void OnException(ExceptionContext context)
{
var exception = context.Exception;
context.Result = new JsonResult(/*Your POCO type having necessary details*/)
{
StatusCode = (int)HttpStatusCode.InternalServerError
};
}
}
You can add this exception filter to be applicable to all controllers.
Example:
app.UseServices(services =>
{
services.AddMvc();
services.Configure<MvcOptions>(options =>
{
options.Filters.Add(new CustomExceptionFilterAttribute());
});
.....
}
Note that this solution does not cover all scenarios...for example, when an exception is thrown while writing the response by a formatter.
I have a class:
public class Application
{
....
public Deployment NewDeployment { get; set; }
....
}
I have an editor template for Deployment within the Application View folder.
The ApplicationViewModel has a SelectedApplication (of type Application), in my Index.cshtml where I use ApplicationViewModel as my Model, I have this call:
#using (Html.BeginForm("Create", "Deployment", new { #id = Model.SelectedId,
q = Model.Query }, FormMethod.Post, new { id = "form", role = "form" }))
{
#Html.EditorFor(m => m.SelectedApplication.NewDeployment)
}
Which then correctly renders out the control in my DisplayTemplates\Deployment.cshtml (though, it may just be pulling the display code and nothing in relation to the NewDeployment object's contents). All is well in the world until I go to submit. At this stage everything seems good. Controller looks like:
public class DeploymentController : Controller
{
[HttpPost]
public ActionResult Create(Deployment NewDeployment)
{
Deployment.CreateDeployment(NewDeployment);
return Redirect("/Application" + Request.Url.Query);
}
}
However, when it goes to DeploymentController -> Create, the object has nulls for values. If I move the NewDeployment object to ApplicationViewModel, it works fine with:
#Html.EditorFor(m => m.NewDeployment)
I looked at the output name/id which was basically SelectedApplication_NewDeployment, but unfortunately changing the Create signature to similar didn't improve the results. Is it possible to model bind to a child object and if so, how?
Your POST action should accept the same model your form is working with, i.e.:
[HttpPost]
public ActionResult Create(ApplicationViewModel model)
Then, you'll be able to get at the deployment the same way as you did in the view:
model.SelectedApplication.NewDeployment
It was technically an accident that using #Html.EditorFor(m => m.NewDeployment) worked. The only reason it did is because the action accepted a parameter named NewDeployment. If the parameter had been named anything else, like just deployment. It would have also failed.
Per Stephen Muecke's comment and with slight modifications, I was able to find how to correct it:
[HttpPost]
public ActionResult Create ([Bind(Prefix="SelectedApplication.NewDeployment")] Deployment deployment)
{
// do things
}
I have data in my apicontroller in following way-
public class OutletPOCController : ApiController
{
OutletPOCContext db = new OutletPOCContext();
[System.Web.Http.ActionName("GetTabText")]
public TabTextModel GetTabText(int bizId)
{
var outlet = db.Info.Where(t => t.BizId == bizId).SingleOrDefault();
return new TabTextModel
{
HomeTab = outlet.BizHomeTabText,
AboutTab = outlet.BizAboutTabText,
TimingsTab = outlet.BizTimingsTabText,
};
}
And now i want to retrieve this data into my view. How shall i create view for this controller and pass the above data? What will be my action method? I am new to webapi and json. Any help is appreciable! Thanks in advance!
The API controller dosent really have views in the sense that you create a cshtml page that takes care of how you display your data. The purpose of the ApiController is simply to return data in the format that you want to consume it.
Basically the API exposes raw data to the web, you consume it in some way, and then display it..
I use something similar to this to load data dynamically into a web page.
Just a simple web api that returns data to the client.
public class APIController : ApiController
{
[HttpGet]
[HttpPost] // allow both post and get requests
public IEnumerable<String> GetData()
{
return new List<string>() { "test1", "test2" };
}
}
When you browse to the API method above it returns this xml data
<ArrayOfstring xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/10/Serialization/Arrays">
<string>test1</string>
<string>test2</string>
</ArrayOfstring>
Which I get using Jquery and do what I please with (http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.get/):
$.get("/api/GetData", function(data) {
alert("Data Loaded: " + data);
});
Examples of XML parsing with JS/Jquery:
http://tech.pro/tutorial/877/xml-parsing-with-jquery
http://www.kawa.net/works/js/jkl/parsexml-e.html
If you are simply looking to get data into a regular view and work with it there without going through javascript I wouldent use a webapi, but instead get the data in the controller and send it to the view for displaying (ASP MVC4 - Pass List to view via view model).
You can also check out the ViewBag container for passing random odd data to the view http://goo.gl/03JTR
On the off chance you really do want to render your data in a view, check this out: Web API - Rendering Razor view by default?
I am creating a rest api using yii framework so the basic output format would be json....
I want all actions in a controller to have header content-type as 'application-json'.
I tried to put it in beforeFilter function in the controller but it didn't work.
Can any one help me out...
Create an init() function in the Controller class (protected/components/Controller.php). This will be called when any Controller/Action is called. Eg:
public function init(){
if ($this->id == 1){
// perform controller specific function
}
}
The $this->id returns the controller id. You must obviously replace the 1 in the code above with the relevant controller id for the controller you want the function to take place with