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sm1l3y

Reputation: 420

MVC append nodes to xml file with jquery/c#

I have an xml file with structure like this:

<ArrayOfUser
<User>
    <FirstName>John</FirstName>
</User>
</ArrayOfUser

I am attempting to grab information from a form and with it append to the xml file.

In my home controller I have this code:

[HttpPost]
        public string writeMe()
        {
            string xmlFilePath = @"~App_Data/users.xml";
            XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
            doc.Load(xmlFilePath);
            XmlElement foo = doc.CreateElement("User");
            XmlElement bar = doc.CreateElement("FirstName");
            bar.InnerText = "Test";
            foo.AppendChild(bar);
            doc.DocumentElement.AppendChild(foo);
            doc.Save(xmlFilePath);
            return null;
        }

My JS code is this (not currently passing anything for testing purposes):

var FirstName = $("input[name='FirstName']").val();

     $.post("/Home/writeMe",
                {},
                function (response) {
                    alert("test");
                }
            );

I get the following error: "Could not find a part of the path 'C:\Program Files (x86)\IIS Express\~App_Data\users.xml'.'"

I have tried other paths such as ...App_Data\users.xml, etc to no avail. Besides this error I am not confident I am approaching this correctly as I am VERY new to using MVC and use to winforms. Any tips or help would be greatly appreciated.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 138

Answers (1)

Aedvald Tseh
Aedvald Tseh

Reputation: 1917

Follow these two steps to fix your issue:

  1. Put users.xml into App_Data-folder in your Visual Studio web project.
  2. Get path App_Data-folder with this Server.MapPath("~/App_Data");

Upvotes: 1

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