Using Html.BeginForm to post to the current controller

Question

I have a partial that is used in several views. The partial contains forms. The action when a form is submited is allways the same, but the controller thats contains the action depends on the view.

Lets say I have Controllers that each have an action ActOnChoosenPerson:

FireStaffController

HireStaffController

I have a partial

PersonList.ascx

The forms are rendered as

Html.BeginForm("FireStaffController" , "ActOnChoosenPerson") or

Html.BeginForm("HireStaffController" , "ActOnChoosenPerson")

What is a good way to get rid of the controller parameter? Right now I pass the name of the current controller into the model and use

Html.BeginForm(Model.CurrentController , "ActOnChoosenPerson")

but that is a bit awkward.

Mark Dickinson · Accepted Answer · 2010-01-26T21:01:35.890

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This code will always give your current controller

<%=( Url.RequestContext.RouteData.GetRequiredString("Controller")) %>

Obviously you can use it without the <%= like this

Html.BeginForm(
  Url.RequestContext.RouteData.GetRequiredString("Controller")) , 
  "ActOnChoosenPerson")

It looks more clunky but your model should not need to know what controller is calling it.

edited Jan 26 '10 at 21:01

answered Jun 23 '09 at 09:30

Mark Dickinson

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The case of the value returned varies with whatever was in the url in some cases. – quentin-starin Jan 20 '11 at 17:27

Alexander Prokofyev · Answer 2 · 2011-08-18T09:44:19.803

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ViewContext's RouteData property contains names of current controller and action. You could use them like this:

Html.BeginForm("ActOnChoosenPerson", ViewContext.RouteData.
    GetRequiredString("controller"))

edited Aug 18 '11 at 09:44

answered Jun 23 '09 at 09:29

Alexander Prokofyev

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Nice one, beat me to it by 36 secs. :) – Mark Dickinson Jun 23 '09 at 09:30
I prefer this method, but note you have the controller and action params in the wrong order, and the RouteDate.Values indexer returns an object not a string so needs a cast. – fearofawhackplanet Aug 17 '11 at 15:19
@fearofawhackplanet: Thanks! I have swapped parameters and also changed Values property to GetRequiredString method. – Alexander Prokofyev Aug 18 '11 at 09:47
Have not tested this, but I would suspect this method would honour child action controllers, while @MarkDickinson's does not – Grimace of Despair Jul 12 '13 at 07:33

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 11 '16 at 08:56

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The easiest way to do this would be to simply call BeginForm() with no parameters.

answered Jun 11 '16 at 08:56

user1751825

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