如何使用父项的项目ID在子级ListView中呈现相关项

Question

I have a nested list view and the goal is to pull the ID from outer list view and pass it into the method below as the CurrentCategoryId This will allow my second list view to populate correctly. From what i read this should be done with a eventhandler OnItemDataBound but i am having trouble understanding how it that works?

Please let me know if you have any questions

<asp:ListView ID="ListView1"
    ItemType="E_Store_Template.Models.Category"
    runat="server"
    SelectMethod="GetCategories"
    OnItemDataBound="brandList_ItemDataBound">
    <ItemTemplate>
        <ul>
            <li style="list-style-type: none; text-align: left;">
                <b style="font-size: large; font-style: normal">
                    <a href="<%#: GetRouteUrl("ProductsByCategoryRoute", new {categoryName = Item.CategoryName}) %>">
                        <%#: Item.CategoryName %>
                    </a>
                    <asp:ListView ID="brandList" runat="server" ItemType="E_Store_Template.Models.Brand">
                        <ItemTemplate>
                            <ul style="list-style-type: none; text-align: left;">
                                <li>
                                    <a href="<%#: GetRouteUrl("ProductsByCatBrandRoute", new {brandName = Item.BrandName}) %>">
                                        <%#: Item.BrandName %>
                                    </a>
                                </li>
                            </ul>
                        </ItemTemplate>
                    </asp:ListView>
                </b>
            </li>
        </ul>
    </ItemTemplate>
</asp:ListView>

I think the event handler needs to look like this

protected List<Brand> brandList_ItemDataBound(object sender, ListViewItemEventArgs e)
{
    ListViewDataItem dataItem = (ListViewDataItem)e.Item;

    if (e.Item.ItemType == ListViewItemType.DataItem)
    {
        Category mydata = (Category)dataItem.DataItem;
        int CurrentCategoryId = mydata.CategoryID;
        var query = _db.Products.Where(p => p.Category.CategoryID == CurrentCategoryId).Select(p => p.Brand).Distinct();
        return query.ToList<Brand>();
    }
    else
    {
        return null;
    }
}

but gives me the error:

'System.Collections.Generic.List<E_Store_Template.Models.Brand> E_Store_Template.SiteMaster.brandList_ItemDataBound(object, System.Web.UI.WebControls.ListViewItemEventArgs)' has the wrong return type

Answer 1

ItemDataBound isn't designed to return data, it is designed to handle an event. In this case the event is rendering a category and anything that needs to happen as a child event. The proper course of action is to get the child ListView from the parent item and bind your data to it. Markup:

<asp:ListView ID="categoryList" runat="server"
    OnItemDataBound="brandList_ItemDataBound" ItemType="E_Store_Template.Models.Category" SelectMethod="GetCategories">
        <LayoutTemplate>
            <ul style="list-style-type: none;">
                <asp:PlaceHolder runat="server" ID="itemPlaceholder" />
            </ul>
        </LayoutTemplate>
        <ItemTemplate>
            <li style="text-align: left;">
                <b style="font-size: large; font-style: normal">
                    <a href="<%#: GetRouteUrl("ProductsByCategoryRoute", new {categoryName = Item.CategoryName}) %>">
                        <%#: Item.CategoryName %>
                    </a>
                </b>
                <asp:ListView ID="brandList" runat="server">
                    <LayoutTemplate>
                        <ul style="list-style-type: none; text-align: left;">
                            <asp:PlaceHolder runat="server" ID="itemPlaceholder" />
                        </ul>
                    </LayoutTemplate>
                    <ItemTemplate>
                        <li>
                            <a href="<%#: GetRouteUrl("ProductsByCatBrandRoute", new {brandName = Item.BrandName}) %>">
                                <%#: Item.BrandName %>
                            </a>
                        </li>
                    </ItemTemplate>
                </asp:ListView>
            </li>
        </ItemTemplate>
    </asp:ListView>

Code behind:

protected void brandList_ItemDataBound(object sender, ListViewItemEventArgs e)
{
    ListViewDataItem dataItem = (ListViewDataItem)e.Item;

    if (e.Item.ItemType == ListViewItemType.DataItem)
    {
        Category mydata = (Category)dataItem.DataItem;

        int CurrentCategoryId = mydata.CategoryID;
        var query = _db.Products.Where(p => p.Category.CategoryID == CurrentCategoryId).Select(p => p.Brand).Distinct();

        ListView brandList = (ListView)e.Item.FindControl("brandList");
        brandList.DataSource = query.ToList<Brand>();
        brandList.DataBind();
    }
}

I added LayoutTemplates with PlaceHolders so your ListView doesn't repeat your tags for each record. I also moved your closing tag because you shouldn't have a block element (unordered list) as a child of a bold tag set.

I would consider getting all the Categories and Brands in 1 (or 2) SQL queries then filtering the Brands data list by the appropriate CategoryID. You would store the Brands data list as a page level variable, but don't load it into Session or ViewState, you only need it during the page rendering.