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Egor
Egor

Reputation: 163

Redirect to new page from Server for ASP.Net MVC Ajax Request

I'm trying to call a method from another controller using RedirectToAction(). But it doesn't work. Could you please explain, what I'm doing wrong?

[HttpPost]
public ActionResult AddToWishList(int id, bool check)
{
    var currentUser = WebSecurity.CurrentUserId;
    if (currentUser != -1)
    {
        // ...              
    }
    else
    {
        return RedirectToAction("Login", "Account");
    }            
}

I call the method in HTML:

<script>
$(document).ready(function () {
    /* call the method in case the user selects a checkbox */
    $("#checkbox".concat(@Model.Id)).change(function () {
        $.ajax({
            url: '@Url.Action("AddToWishList", "Item")',
            type: 'POST',
            data: {
                id: '@Model.Id',
                check: this.checked
            }
        });
    });
});

It works if I use:

success: function (result) {
    window.location.href = "@Url.Content("~/Account/Login")";
}

But I don't need to navigate to the Login() after every click, only if the user is not authorized. Could you please explain how I can use redirect in the controller?

Upvotes: 5

Views: 2138

Answers (2)

RBT
RBT

Reputation: 25907

To add to @Win's answer - I had a use case where I had a legacy ASPX file in my ASP.NET MVC application. And, I had to navigate to that ASPX page from my MVC action returning ActionResult. So, I did something like this to navigate to that ASPX page from my action. I had to create an absolute URL for navigation.

var myLegacyPageUrl = Request.Url.Scheme 
                                   + "://"
                                   + Request.Url.Authority
                                   + Url.RequestContext.HttpContext.Request.ApplicationPath
                                   + "/mylegacypage.aspx?";
                return JavaScript(string.Format("window.location='{0}'", errorPageUrl));

Hope someone finds it useful in case of legacy web pages present in modern MVC website.

Upvotes: 0

Win
Win

Reputation: 62260

You can response JavaScript which basically returns JavaScriptResult.

[HttpPost]
public ActionResult AddToWishList(int id, bool check)
{
    return JavaScript("window.location='/Account/Login'");
}

Upvotes: 8

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