MVC :: Abstracting List Views Of Different Objects?
Dec 20, 2010
I finding myself repeating myself and the DRY side is nagging me to find an abstraction. I have a number of different entities in an MVC3 Razor web app. They are all business objects and each has a number of different properties that I show to the user in a list. So I have Index views and List partial views for each of these different entities (there are at least 10). I would like to abstract the List partial view so that it's capable of displaying a list of any type of entity. It simply shows them in a table with a column for each property and a row for each entity. My current thinking is that I could receive a list of objects and then use Reflection to see what properties those objects have and use those to make columns. I really wish I could receive a generic List somehow and from my various controllers just pass in an anonymous object (new {Parameter 1=param1, Parameter 2=param2}, etc.) but then I discovered that it's not possible to pass anonymous objects around.
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