Has anybody figured out a way to separate the dependency of the view/controller from the model. In other words, model is independent of the view/controller in asp.net MVC but has anybody also taken out dependency of the view/controller from model as well?
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I've got problem with my app .
I've got such classes (this is some kind of tree structure):
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in Index() action i've got this piece of code
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In MVCs with which I have worked, the Controller has the job of co-ordinating a number of views, consequent to some user action against the model.
However in ASP MVC, there never appears to be more than 1 view resulting from an http request (please correct me if I am wrong). Instead the "Controller" in ASP MVC appears to be a URL Routing Target.
Also, in my (admittedly limited) experience, the Model in MVC is intended to be a model of the problem domain of the application. However in ASP MVC, the "Model" appears to be a model of the
data binding of the corresponding view.
returning a partial view from a controller with different model than my main View. For example:
blic ActionResult Index()
{
//myModel - get Some Types
return View(mymodel);
}
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How Can I Pass data(not the part of model) to Controller from View? View Code
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Curious what the best practice is for returning errors to a view from a controller where the error isn't really a validation error, but more like "user not found" or "service timeout" type of errors. (in ASP.NET MVC2 framework)
I've been adding them to the ModelState's model errors, but that doesn't seem appropriate. (although easy to implement and maintain)
Example - A user tries to log in, and their credentials do not match a known user.
When I first heard about ASP.NET MVC, I was thinking that would mean applications with three parts: model, view, and controller.
Then I read NerdDinner and learned the ways of repositories and view-models. Next, I read this tutorial and soon became sold on the virtues of a service layer. Finally, I read the Fluent Validation documentation, and I'll be darned if I didn't end up writing a bunch of validators.
Tonight, I took a step back and thought about what had become of my project. It seems to have become the victim of the design pattern equivalent of "feature creep". Somehow I'd gone from Model-View-Controller to Model-Repository-Service-Validator-View-ViewModel-Controller. You want loosely coupled and DRY? We got your loosely coupled and DRY right here! But I'm wondering if this could be a case of too much of a good thing.
Am I right to be concerned? Or is this actually not as crazy as it sounds? On one hand, it seems crazy to have so many layers. On the other hand, every layer has a clearly defined purpose that makes sense to me. Have your MVC applications turned into MRSVVVMC apps too? If not, what do they look like? Where's that right balance?
I'm building an MVC 2 RTM app, and I want to be able to share my model across applications. I'd *like* to be able to implement it like:ASP.NET MVC2 app (holds Views and Controllers)Class library to hold Model(s)WCF app to handle the data transactions with the models via different data stores across apps I had the MVC app working fine, but I wanted to abstract the data stuff and be able to work with the model across apps through the WCF site, so I created a class library project and moved all of the Models classes into that and set-up a WCF app, then added project references to the MVC and WCF apps that point at the class library. The idea was I can create services that take and return objects from the model via method calls across apps. It appears that everything's wired up correctly in the MVC project, so I'm passing the objects stored in the Models class library between controllers and views and everythig is compiling just fine, but for some reason the data is not being passed back from the views to the controller on POST -- all of the properties in the classes are null or empty.
When I debug the app, I can see that the values are stored in the model data dictionary but not the model object itself. What am I doing wrong? Am I on the wrong path, or missing something obvious (to some)?
My general understanding of the MVC pattern is that the model is reponsible for persisting itself. Though I also see other opionions that models should be dumb data objects and that controllers should persist them via a data access layer.
Per http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_view_controller: "Many applications use a persistent storage mechanism such as a database to store data. MVC does not specifically mention the data access layer because it is understood to be underneath or encapsulated by the model." Though it does also mention "Models are not data access objects."
Per http://www.asp.net/mvc/tutorials/asp-net-mvc-overview--cs, "Models. Model objects are the parts of the application that implement the logic for the applications data domain. Often, model objects retrieve and store model state in a database. For example, a Product object might retrieve information from a database, operate on it, and then write updated information back to a Products table in SQL Server."
First, am I misguided in believing that models should persist themselves? Or, is this just a matter of opinion?
Second, if I follow the pattern where controllers manage the persistence of the model, I find it fairly easy to use dependency injection to inject a data access component into my controller using a custom controller factory (implementing the IControllerFactory
interface). If I follow the pattern where my model saves itself, I'd want to inject my data access component into the model. Is there a way to provide a custom factory for models? Otherwise, I don't think using DI with models is possible.
I'm displaying the values in ViewData.Model in a View (.aspx) -- After the user looks them over, when the user clicks the "Submit" button that I have in this view, I want the ViewData.Model passed to another controller, but I'm not sure how to do this.
Currently, my target controller/action looks like this:
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The "ViewData.Model" variable in this View is of type: List<Sample>
How do I pass the ViewData.Model to the RegisterController / Samples (action) ?
In the Controllers directory, naming every controller with "Controller" prefix seems plain stupid. Is there a way to remove this dependency?
View 5 RepliesI have been reading about different model for development
model view control mvc
model view presenter MVP
Model view view model MVVM
i belive MVC has two big Advantage over webform 1) TDD 2) More control on HTML
MVP is bit variation in mvc model. rapid development as well as 1) TDD 2) More control on HTML (correct me if i m wrong) see the below link
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I have a simple model where a Person has Gifts. I have a view which is a list of Gifts belonging to one Person.
My problem is with the Create action for a new Gift. I want it to default to the PersonID that we are already viewing the list of Gifts for. I tried simply passing the last PersonID (they are all the same)
Html.ActionLink("Create New", "Create", new { id = Model.Last().PersonID }) which works fine if there is already at least one Gift for that person but if this is the first Gift I don't have a value.
My Gift List controller knows the PersonID I want to pass but the view doesn't.
How do I pass this PersonID from my Gift List controller to my Gift Create controller via the Gift List view? Or is there a better way to do this?
I've been used to decorating data model classes with data annotation attributes, but the purist in me baulks slightly at including purely presentational attributes such as display format here. I am, however, quite happy to keep validation centric attributes here. One good reason I have to continue keeping all annotations etc. in the data model is that my view model aggregates data model classes, e.g.
my ViewModelBase.DetailItem<TEntity> property in the view model is just a reference to an entity class in my data model. If I wanted to move presentational annotations to the view model, I would have to quite radically revise my design to one where I duplicate data model properties in my view model and use an object mapping tool to populate view model objects based on data model objects.
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Say I got a domain model as follows: (and my repository expect an instance of this object)
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And a view model (which my views are based on)
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At the moment I got it like this and have my controller action manually create a new Person object from the PersonModel object before passing it on to the repository, which does not feel right.
So I tried to have PersonModel inherit from Person and pass that to the repository (also tried casting the PersonModel to a Person object first), but that don't work out.
What's the right way to have PersonModel automatically cast to Person? I want to keep this logic as my current structure allow me to keep things really loosely coupled, with the repository layer not having a clue how it's being used.
How to set the model for the particular controller from another controller ?
View 1 Repliesi have vreater a class model for login
public class LogOnModel
{
[Required(ErrorMessage="*")]
public string username { get; set; }
[Required(ErrorMessage = "*")]
[DataType(DataType.Password)]
public string password { get; set; }
public bool rememberme { get; set; }
}
and created a view from controller
public ActionResult LogOn()
{
return View();
}
[HttpPost]
public ActionResult LogOn(string Username, string Password, bool RememberMe)
{
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(Username) && !string.IsNullOrEmpty(Password))
return RedirectToAction("Index", "Home");
else
return View();
}
my view
<% using (Html.BeginForm())
{ %>
<div>
<label>username</label>
<%: Html.TextBoxFor(m=>m.username) %>
</div>
<div>
<label>password</label>
<%: Html.TextBoxFor(m=>m.password) %>
</div>
<div>
<label>Beni Hatırla</label>
<%: Html.CheckBoxFor(m=>m.rememberme) %>
</div>
<div>
<label></label>
<input type="submit" id="button" value="Login" />
</div>
<div id="LoginError">
<%: Html.ValidationMessageFor(m => m.username)%>
<%: Html.ValidationMessageFor(m => m.password) %>
</div>
<%} %>
but password textbox type does not include password charecters as(***). and not Html.ValidationMessage for empty textboxes.
i need to implement edit functionality for my model. among other fields my model contains record id in the database. when my controller is called i need to update the database record with the same id as the model using the fields in the model.
here is my controller:
[HttpPost]
public ActionResult Edit(MyModel m)
{
var r = my_datacontext.MyTable.SelectSingleOrDefault(x => x.id == m.id);
if (r != null)
{
r = m;
my_datacontext.SubmitChanges();
}
}
this does not work because m does not get added to the datacontext's ChangeSet. why? i fixed this by changing the signature of my controller action to receive FormCollection instead of the model, and by invoking UpdateModel manually. i think this is not the right way to do it.
Can i create a partial view and a controller that will feed data to the view, and if i render that partial in a Master page, the Data will show on whatever URL i am?
Or is there another way of showing content from database on every page(view)?
Why is a null parameter being passed to the following controller action?
public FileContentResult GetImageForArticle(ArticleSummary article)
{
if (article == null || !article.ContainsValidThumbNail()) return null;
return File(article.ThumbNail, article.ThumbNaiType);
}
from the following partial view:
<%@ Control Language="C#" Inherits="System.Web.Mvc.ViewUserControl<IEnumerable<AkwiMemorial.Models.ArticleSummary>>" %>
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I've been going at this for several hours and I simply cannot find the solution.
I want to get some data from my user. So first, I use a controller to create a view which receives a Model:
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The rest of this controller does not matter since no matter what I do, the count attribute of Request.Files (or Request.Files.Keys) remains 0. I simply can't find a way to pass the files from the form (the Model passes just fine).
I am using the Nhibernate with MVC. In the controller i am getting the model from the HttpSession. How can i set the model from controller Unit testing method.
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I have this model class,
Public Class Sports
Private _SportsID As Integer
Private _SportsName As String
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I have an entity object as model input in my view. Not sure if it's the best approach, but I use the object references to get values from a related object.Let's say I've got a car entity and a manufacturer entity.Here's how it would look in my view
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I've get a nullreferenceexception where the car entitity does not have a reference towards manufacturer. I'd like to output a " " if no manufacturer exists.
've created a Search partial view and it works, except for my view model. What i mean is, the partial view sends a string to my ActionResult Method, but only a string, that is not related to the view model that the partial view is built in. If i tell my ActionResult method to receive the view model in which the partial view is built in, it always tells me that i have null values. Here's my code This is my partial view:
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Now here is my Model in my MoviesSearch view model:
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Now the actual MoviesSearchViewModel
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Inside my Search controller i have this
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And then i have this:
