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Domino5
Domino5

Reputation: 43

pass decimal to controller mvc4

I'm having issues with one of my controller actions .
I have a decimal stored in my viewbag on my view. And am attempting to pass this via and actionlink to my controller method. 

ViewBag.Interest =1.25 


@Html.ActionLink("Export", "ExportInterest", "Export", new {id = ViewBag.Interest}, null).

My controller method looks something like this : 

public ActionResult ExportInterest(decimal? id)

{

return View();

}

I can see the 1.25 be passed via query string but I'm getting a 404 file not found when it's being routed. Note: if I change it to just a whole number with no decimal point it's working fine. Is this an encoding error ? It's not recognising the decimal point , perhaps I need to escape it ? Is there a htmlhelper I should be using? Initially I thought it might be a localisation thing but I have my globalisation culture set up in my web.config. I'm obviously doing something silly here....any help would be appreciated...

Update: I have also tried casting my viewbag to a nullable decimal in the action link but this didn't have any effect

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1007

Answers (2)

Łukasz Bańcarz
Łukasz Bańcarz

Reputation: 125

Try that:

decimal? d = (decimal?)ViewBag.Interest;

@Html.ActionLink("Export", "ExportInterest", "Export", new {id = d}, null)

or

@Html.ActionLink("Export", "ExportInterest", "Export", new {id = (decimal?)ViewBag.Interest}, null)

Upvotes: 0

taylonr
taylonr

Reputation: 10790

My guess is has to do with the data type in the view bag.

I have passed decimals to controllers before so I know it can be done. But if you changed your link to be:

@Html.ActionLink("Export", "ExportInterest", "Export", new {id =1.25}, null).

Does it work?

Upvotes: 1

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