View Create send IEnumerable to Controller

Question

View

@model IEnumerable<MyMixtapezServerCodeHomePage.Models.album>

@for(int i=0;i<userchoiceIndex;i++)
{
    <div class="editor-label">
        @Html.LabelFor(model => model.artist)
    </div>
    <div class="editor-field">
        @Html.EditorFor(model => model.artist)
        @Html.ValidationMessageFor(model => model.artist)
    </div>
}

Controller

[HttpPost]
[AcceptVerbs(HttpVerbs.Post)]
public ActionResult Create(IEnumerable<album> album)
{
}

Is it possible? I want to create a multiple values to database in a faster and easy way.

Answer 1

Thanks for all answers, this informations did get to a single point that worked for me.

@model IEnumerable<MyMixtapezServerCodeHomePage.Models.album>
@using (Html.BeginForm("FeatureSystem", "album", FormMethod.Post))

<th>
    @Html.DisplayNameFor(model => model.name)
</th>

@{var item = @Model.ToList();}
@for (int count = 0; count < @Model.Count(); count++){
    <td>
        <div class="editor-label">
            @Html.LabelFor(model => item[count].name)
        </div>
        <div class="editor-field">
            @Html.EditorFor(model => item[count].name)
            @Html.ValidationMessageFor(model => item[count].name)
        </div>
</td>
}

Controller

[HttpPost]
[AcceptVerbs(HttpVerbs.Post)]
public ActionResult FeatureSystem(IEnumerable<album> albums)

Answer 2

Try something like this on your form view, you have to set the index of the collection:

@model IEnumerable<MyMixtapezServerCodeHomePage.Models.album>

@for (int i=0; i<userchoiceIndex; i++)
{
    <div class="editor-label">
        @Html.LabelFor(model => model[i].artist)
    </div>
    <div class="editor-field">
        @Html.EditorFor(model => model[i].artist)
        @Html.ValidationMessageFor(model => model[i].artist)
    </div>
}

on your controller just do something like:

[HttpPost]
public ActionResult Create(IEnumerable<album> album)
{
    if (ModelState.IsValid) 
    {
       // persist and redirect... whatever
    }
    return View(album);
}

Take a look at this article: http://haacked.com/archive/2008/10/23/model-binding-to-a-list.aspx

Answer 3

It is possible, but not like that.

First off, create a model that'll hold your Albums, like so:

public class AlbumsModel
{
    public List<Album> Albums { get; set; }
}

Then do the following in your view. Note my use of a for loop, this is so the name attributes of the items are in sync and model binding can easily resolve the collection on post.

@model AlbumsModel

@for(int i=0; i<Model.Albums.Count; i++)
{
    <div class="editor-label">
        @Html.LabelFor(m=> m.Albums[i].artist)
   </div>
   <div class="editor-field">
       @Html.EditorFor(m=> m.Albums[i].artist)
       @Html.ValidationMessageFor(m => m.Albums[i].artist)
   </div>
}

Then have your Post controller action be:

[HttpPost]
[AcceptVerbs(HttpVerbs.Post)]
public ActionResult Create(AlbumsModel model)
{
    foreach(Album album in model.Albums)
    {
        //do your save here
    }
    //redirect or return a view here
}