Post from one controller action to another (not redirect)

Question

I have an action which I need to post forward onto another action if it meets certain conditions, but I am unable to preserve the form data when passing through to the next action.

The receiving action accepts a FormCollection, which the sending action

Currently, I am doing a return RedirectToAction("action","controller", form). And I can determine that the form variable has keys before it redirects (form.HasKeys() = true).

When the action is hit however, the FormCollection is empty (form.HasKeys() = false).

Any ideas? Is there a 'PostToAction' method that I am missing?

FYI: I am using ASP.NET MVC Beta. Many thanks!

Edit: For those who have this problem, please look into the PRG Pattern. This is the actual term of what I was looking to do which also enables pretty urls.

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 07 '09 at 10:50

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I would refactor the two controllers and put the common code into a helper or into a common base class. That way the actions in the two controllers can delegate to the common code.

answered Jan 07 '09 at 10:50

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score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:01

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When RedirectToAction is called it will make an HTTP redirection and it will make a GET to the other action URL. If you need to reuse the code from another controller I'd do what ewalshe suggest, move the common to a BaseController or a business service and make both actions delegate to it.

This links may help:

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answered Jan 07 '09 at 11:19

Eduardo Campañó

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Eduardo, thankyou for the linkage! It helped looking at Stephen Walther's example. – Dan Atkinson Jan 07 '09 at 14:43

Post from one controller action to another (not redirect)

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