dot in name of GET & POST Request data (ASP.net MVC)

Question

ASP.net MVC TryUpateModel or UpdateModel automatically bind HTTP Request (form & query string) as an object property using dot.

For example, <input type="text" name="Person.first_name"> can be automatically bind to object Person.first_name

The problem is having a dot in Query string and form can cause unknown issue in future. Anyway I can replace this dot delimiter with other character such as '-' and etc?

Answer 1

AFAIK you'll need to write your own model binder to do that.

Answer 2

Passing your dotted id in the Html Attributes will do what you want in Form POSTs at least

Kindness,

Dan

<%=Html.TextBox("some.thing", "", new { id = "some.thing" })%>