The popular model item passed into the dictis of type System.Collections.Generic.List`1[X] but this dictionary requires a model item of type X

Question

So yeah I have investigated and read a lot of responses here but they all have mismatch with data types.. I cannot figure out why this is happening.

    public class RestaurantBranchModel
{
    public int id { get; set; }

    public string name { get; set; }

    public string telephone { get; set; }

    public int master_restaurant_id { get; set; }

    //public RestaurantModel master_restaurant { get; set; }

    public int address_id { get; set; }

    //public AddressModel address { get; set; }
}

Controller

 RestaurantBranchRepository RestaurantBranchRepository = new RestaurantBranchRepository();
    IEnumerable<RestaurantBranchModel> Branches;

    // GET: RestaurantBranch
    public ActionResult Index()
    {
        Branches = RestaurantBranchRepository.GetBranches();
        return View(Branches); //I've also tried adding .ToList()
    }

View

@model IEnumerable<OrdenarBackEnd.Models.RestaurantBranchModel>

@{
ViewBag.Title = "Index";
Layout = "~/Views/Shared/_XenonLayoutPage.cshtml";}

<h2>Index</h2>

<p>
    @Html.ActionLink("Create New", "Create")
</p>
<table class="table">
    <tr>
        <th>
            @Html.DisplayNameFor(model => model.name)
        </th>
        <th>
            @Html.DisplayNameFor(model => model.telephone)
        </th>
        <th>
            @Html.DisplayNameFor(model => model.master_restaurant_id)
        </th>
        <th>
            @Html.DisplayNameFor(model => model.address_id)
        </th>
        <th></th>
    </tr>


@foreach (var item in Model) {
   <tr>
        <td>
            @Html.DisplayFor(modelItem => item.name)
        </td>
        <td>
            @Html.DisplayFor(modelItem => item.telephone)
        </td>
        <td>
            @Html.DisplayFor(modelItem => item.master_restaurant_id)
        </td>
        <td>
            @Html.DisplayFor(modelItem => item.address_id)
        </td>
        <td>
            @Html.ActionLink("Edit", "Edit", new { id=item.id }) |
            @Html.ActionLink("Details", "Details", new { id=item.id }) |
            @Html.ActionLink("Delete", "Delete", new { id=item.id })
        </td>
    </tr>
}

</table>

@section BottomScripts{}

//END OF CODE

So.. I have a the model. I pass a collection of items in the View, the View is under the LIST template for mvc, and it says i am passing a generic list but it needs a single object ? what gives??..

This is the error

The model item passed into the dictionary is of type 'System.Collections.Generic.List`1[OrdenarBackEnd.Models.RestaurantBranchModel]', but this dictionary requires a model item of type 'OrdenarBackEnd.Models.UserModel'.

Answer 1

Change

@Html.DisplayNameFor(model => model.name)

To

@Html.DisplayNameFor(model => model.First().name)

Basically it needs a single object and you are passing in a list.