Asp MVC AjaxExtensions, call from controller

Question

I'm sure this is simple but I'm struggling to find it

Inside a controller you can do something like this:

public ActionResult MyAction()
{
  string url = Url.Action(action, controller),
  // do something with the url
}

What's the Ajax equivalent? i.e. where you would call Ajax.ActionLink in a View whats the equivalent for the controller?

• Elaboration-

I have a master/detail arrangement with a grid and some input elements. You can click on select/delete in the grid to amend or delete the line.

The grid is a Kendo UI grid, the view is rendered via:

1. a partial view to render the input elements

2. creating a json object, i.e.

   @{ var jsLines = @Html.Raw(Json.Encode(Model.Lines)); }

3. Binding the Kendo grid to this json

From within the grid I want to hit on select and call an Ajax method to update the partial view with the form details

thanks

Answer 1

I'm not at all convinced that this is the right way to go but it's always good to have options.

Ajax.ActionLink seems to be the same as Url.Action but with a few attributes thrown in. So you can use this:

        return string.Format("<a data-ajax='true' data-ajax-mode='replace' 
                               data-ajax-update='{2}' href=\"{0}\">{1}</a>",
            Url.Action(action, controller, routeValues),
            text, 
            "formContainerSelectSection");

to update this:

<div id="formContainerSelectSection">
    ... stuff to be replaced via ajax
</div>

I accept, especially after the discussion with NicoD, that there are other and probably easier ways to do this, in particular this is creating a link in the controller, that's the Views job, but the original question was about how to do this

Answer 2

You can use Url.Action from the razor view. Something like :

$.ajax({
    url: '@Url.Action("Action", "Controller")',
    ...