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Shahriyar Rahim
Shahriyar Rahim

Reputation: 11

Passing the input value from controller to view in MVC

I am new to ASP.NET Core MVC. I want to move the text string from controllers to views. Here is my controller.

public class CalculatorController : Controller
{
    public string text= "";

    public IActionResult Index()
    {
        ViewData["Text"] = text;
        return View();
    }

    public IActionResult Button1_Click(string button)
    {
        text += button;
        return RedirectToAction("Index");
    }

    public IActionResult Button2_Click(string button)
    {
        text = text + button;
        return RedirectToAction("Index");
    }
}

In the controller, I make a public string text, in which the button value be stored when button1_Click, it stores its value and shows in the input textbox and when Button2_Click it stores and show both the values of button1 and button2 in the input textbox.

The input textbox markup is here:

<input type="text" asp-controller="Calculator" asp-action="Index"  
       value="@ViewBag.Text" class="form-control" />

But this code does not work well.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3025

Answers (2)

Tiny Wang
Tiny Wang

Reputation: 15971

In my opinion, if you only need to append the text value of the button to your input box, you even not need to make a request to your backend controller, unless you need to do some other operations. If so, I recommend you to use ajax here to only send the button text string to your controller, and then you can do some thing in the success call back function like this:

public IActionResult Index()
{
    ViewData["Text"] = "asdf";
    return View();
}

public string Button1(string button)
{
    // do your own business here
    return text;
}

public string Button2(string button)
{
    // do your own business here
    return text;
}

And in the cshtml file,

<input type="text" id="input1" value="@ViewBag.Text " />
<a href="#" id="ccc">ccc</a>
<a href="#" id="ddd">ddd</a>

<script>
    $("#ccc").click(function () {
        $.ajax({
            url: "https://localhost:44372/home/Button1",
            type: "get",
            data: {
                button: "ccc"
            },
            success: function (data) {
                $("#input1").val($("#input1").val() + data);
            }
        });
    });

    $("#ddd").click(function () {
        $.ajax({
            url: "https://localhost:44372/home/Button1",
            type: "get",
            data: {
                button: "ddd"
            },
            success: function (data) {
                $("#input1").val($("#input1").val() + data);
            }
        });
    });
</script>

Upvotes: 0

Victor
Victor

Reputation: 8935

You need to take to account that when you execute action method public IActionResult Index(), there is one instance of your controller class. But after posting a new text value from the view a new instance of your controller class will be created. To see this I added printing of the controller class hash code: Debug.WriteLine("[HttpGet] This is: " + this.GetHashCode());.

This is why this operator text += button; in your code will not work as you expected.

To persist the text between request, in this example, the TempData is used.

Code fragment in controller:

public IActionResult Index()
{   
    System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine("[HttpGet] This is: " + this.GetHashCode());
    TempData["TextData"] = "Hello World!";
    return View();
}

[HttpPost]
public IActionResult Index(string data)
{
    System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine("[HttpPost] This is: " + this.GetHashCode());
 
    TempData["TextData"] += data;
    ModelState.Remove("data"); // The context clean up 
    return View("Index");
}

The view Index.cshtml:

@{
    var data = TempData["TextData"];   
}

@using (Html.BeginForm("Index", "Calculator"))
{
    <input type="text" asp-for="@data" />
    TempData.Keep("TextData"); // To preserve the data at the end of the request
}

See the following post for additional information: Session and state management in ASP.NET Core

Upvotes: 1

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