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Controller with unknown number of parameters?

Answer 1

A:

If you're dealing with an arbitrary number of items in your form post, I'd suggest encoding the post on the client side with javascript so that you're actually only sending a single item back to your controller. JSON seems like the obvious choice.

http://www.json.org/json2.js

spender 2010-03-29 14:21:39

But how do I do that, if I dont know how many items I've got? Should I give them all distinct id atributes?Thank you.

StackPointer 2010-03-30 08:47:01

Answer 2

+1 A:

You could just use the form collection parameter on your controller and make sure your generated textboxes have unique ids.

public ActionResult SomeMethod(FormCollection formValues)
{
   foreach (string key in formValues)
   {                
        if (key.ToLower().StartsWith("form-text-"))
        {                    
           //Do Something     
        }
   }
}

OG 2010-03-29 14:29:30

Thank you very much.

StackPointer 2010-03-29 14:32:28

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