Let's say I have an action like this:
[HttpPost]
public ActionResult(MyObject obj)
{
//Do a SQL insert that gets an Id for obj
//Do some long-running operation in the background - don't wait for it to finish
//Return a report of the object
return View(obj);
}
Is there a way to modify the URL after the POST so it will display ?id=1234 at the end? There is an equivalent action for doing a GET (as if the user shared the page), and I'd like to just display the report.
You should use a RedirectResult and redirect the user to the new URL.
If you do that you can't pass anything to the view though.
A common practice is to store it in the TempData variable:
[HttpPost]
public ActionResult(MyObject obj)
{
//Do a SQL insert that gets an Id for obj
//Do some long-running operation in the background - don't wait for it to finish
TempData["obj"] 0 obj;
//Return a report of the object
return new RedirectResult();
}
You can't programmatically change the URL from the server. If you don't want to use a redirect, you could change it with JavaScript once the page has loaded
