pass json object to controller action with get request

Question

I am working with asp.net mvc4. I have an action method which is a get method as it returns a an mvc view that is called from JavaScript/Jquery.

The javascript makes a get request to the controller action. I have a json object that I would like to pass to the mvc action. But as its a get request, as I need to return a view from it, it is posing difficult.

Is it possible to pass a json object that maps to an object on the signature of the controller action? I was looking libraries that may help such as http://benalman.com/projects/jquery-bbq-plugin/

Any tips or ideas?

Answer 1

you could use something like servicestack http://www.servicestack.net/ this takes care of everything, and does it very well, as an alternative there is the MVC API options, but servicestack is better at this.

I am sure if you look at this project, you will either get great ideas from it, or learn to decouple your data driven code, away from your UI project.

Answer 2

You dont need any external APIs to do that. All you need to do is make an c# object with the same property and name as the JSON Object. For Eg Create an Object as

public class MyObject{
    public string MyProperty1{get; set;}
    public string Property2{get; set;}
}

And creating object in the jquery is all correct i assume and use jquery syntax like
as below

$.get('@Url.Action("MyAction","MyController")',
    {myObject: jqueryObject},
    function(resp){$("#myDiv").innerHTML(resp);});

And in case of Action use function declaration like

public ActionResult MyAction(MyObject myObject)
{
    // your code here
    return PartialView("_MyPartialView", myModelForPartialView);
}

BTW this way works for both Get and Post.