Multiple ActionResults to return same view? Or better way?

Question

I have the url route working like so [domain]/Listings/Colorado the Action results signature to return the model works fine ...ActionResult GetByStateName(string stateName)..

I'd like to have the same view returned by an ActionResult GetByStateName(string stateName, string priceRange) ...overloading I guess but I can't have ambiguous action results it seems..

What I need is to return the same view but but by different action results...I think.

Is optional parameters the way to go or what might be better as Ill have up to 5 differing parameters, some empty or null be I don't want to have a View for each ActionResult...?

Answer 1

You just need to use the second method (GetByStateName(string stateName, string priceRange)).

If the framework don't find a value for priceRange on the Request, it will set it to null... so you just need to check if priceRange is null.

Answer 2

You can use a different name for the second method, and do a

return View("GetByStateName", model);

Alternatively define only the method with 2 parameters, and explicitly handle the case where the extra parameter is null.