Posting with multiple models in a view

Question

So I have a View that contains 2 models. Each model has its own form and submit button.

Currently, I have both submit buttons are processed by the same controller method and use reflection to figure out which model type was passed. But it seems like there would be a better way... any ideas?

I have something like this:

Models:

public class Model1
{
  // Elements
}

public class Model2
{
  // Elements
}

Controller:

public ViewResult ConMeth(Object model)
{
  Type t = model.GetType();
  if(t == typeof(Model1)
  {
    // Do work for Model1
  }
  else if(t == typeof(Model2)
  {
    // Do work for Model2
  }
  else
  {
    // Do something else...
  }
}

What's the impetus for wanting to go to the same controller action... Posting to seperate actions would eliminate this problem seemingly — Rikon
– Rikon, Commented Apr 27, 2013 at 4:09
@Rikon: Well that was the path I planned on. But I kept getting: The current request for action 'Manage' on controller type 'ConMeth' is ambiguous between the following action methods — poy
– poy, Commented Apr 27, 2013 at 4:12
@AlexeiLevenkov: I always consider (and perhaps in error), that looking at the metadata (.GetType()) to be a form of reflection. Methods just don't feel the same :) — poy
– poy, Commented Apr 27, 2013 at 4:14

Rikon · Accepted Answer · 2013-04-27 04:15:30Z

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If you show your view info, I suspect you've got two seperate things happening in the view. Just put each thing in it's own form and use the

@using (Html.BeginForm(...)){}

and specify the actions by name and the controller (if necessary) in the BeginForm params... That should get rid of the ambiguous reference error

Here is an example w/ the older (not razor) tags

answered Apr 27, 2013 at 4:15

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poy Over a year ago

doh! Obviously... this fixed it.

A Biz · Accepted Answer · 2013-04-27 04:19:01Z

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You can use a Tuple<> in your view to have two view models, and then in the @Html.BeginForm() helper method for each form, you can specify POSTs to two different controllers to process your form data.

@model Tuple<ProjectName.Models.Model1, ProjectName.Models.Model2>

answered Apr 27, 2013 at 4:19

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