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James Wilson
James Wilson

Reputation: 5150

Passing model through a page to another page

We have a job application that uses a two step process. I need to tweak this slightly. The easiest way I can see doing this is removing the application creation stage from step one, and just passing it to step two which is a separate view.

Page 1 - Step 1

public ActionResult Apply(JobApplicant jobapp, string HiddenJobId)
        {
            jobapp.JobID = Convert.ToInt32(HiddenJobId);
            //JobsHelper.CreateJobApplicant(jobapp);

            return View("ApplyResume", jobapp); 
        }

The above code used to CreateJopApplication(). I commented this out and am now passing this to the next step/page.

However once on this new page I then have an [HttpPost] that takes that jobapp but at this point it is all null.

The jobapp(JobApplication) is about 140 columns, I'd hate to have to create a hidden text field for all of that. Is there an easier way to pass a model across two pages?

Step 2 - Page 2

[HttpPost]
        public ActionResult Upload(HttpPostedFileBase file, string applicantId, string coverLetter, JobApplicant jobapp)
        {
            // jobapp is null during this entire step, passed in null its as if the page before never had it.
            JobsHelper.CreateJobApplicant(jobapp);
            .......

Upvotes: 0

Views: 440

Answers (1)

beautifulcoder
beautifulcoder

Reputation: 11340

You may be able to use TempData. It is like a session state but it's removed once it gets used. It is good for one round trip.

With a stateless framework like MVC, you can:

  • Persist inside the form using hidden fields
  • Persist in database
  • Persist in session state or temporary state

Upvotes: 1

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