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supernoob
supernoob

Reputation: 117

How to redirect to a page from a non controller in ASP.NET MVC?

I have a non-controller file called MyLib.cs where I have a method where, for a given condition, I want it to redirect to another page.

I used RedirectToAction(), but I got an error saying it dose not exist in current context.

Any ideas what I should use?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 974

Answers (3)

Mohammed Swillam
Mohammed Swillam

Reputation: 9242

I think you can use Response.Redirect here. Consider this code:

HttpContext.Current.Response.Redirect("YOUR_PAGE_Virtual_PATH"); 
//example: http://www.mywebsite.com/home/list

Upvotes: 3

David Anderson
David Anderson

Reputation: 623

This is against some of the MVC tenets, you're breaking the Separation of Concerns concept, only the controllers should return views, not your libs. I can give you two suggestions:

  1. In your lib return a Enum, and them the controller would figure out which view should be displayed.

  2. If not all paths from your lib causes a redirection, throw an exception and the controller handles it redirecting to the appropriate view.

Upvotes: 1

Chris
Chris

Reputation: 3201

I assume MyLib is called from within a controller?

Could you set variable in MyLib.cs and redirect from your controller based on that once MyLib has finished?

Update :

Do you absolutely have to redirect from this class? I say this because this is going against the MVC paradigm. You should really be handling all your routing within your controllers. Sticking to it really will make your application far more maintainable. Really can't stress that enough! :)

Upvotes: 0

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