mvc2 - getting the URL to reflect the form submission

Question

I have an MVC2 application with a form (like ya do). The user enters a query into the form (in the /Cars/Index view) and hits the "submit" button which posts to the Details action of CarsController - the Details view renders with results, and all is well and good.

The user can enter a URL (such as /Cars/Details/123-125) and they get the Details view with 123, 124 and 125 displayed, same as if you'd entered it on the form. Also well and good.

What I want to enable, if possible, is that when the user enters "123-125" or whatever in the form the URL also reflects the results - instead of "/Cars/Details" for a URL, which is what shows now, I want it to show "/Cars/Details/123-125".

For the life of me, I cannot figure out how this should be done.

Any assistance is appreciated.

Answer 1

Change your form to a GET instead of POST method (POST is the default), and it should just work.

<% using (Html.BeginForm("Action", "Controller", FormMethod.Get)) { %>

Answer 2

It sounds like its not finding a matching route definition for /Cars/Details/123-125. I think this could be happening because of the way the routing engine works.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2568146/asp-net-mvc-route-contraints-with-id-slug-format