Hi there.
For more than a day now I have been unable to update my entity models in my MVC project with values from the post. I have read like 30 related issues here on SO and still I have no idea what is even wrong. I made a small project without Ajax and other disturbances, and now I can watch it fail reliably. I was hoping to run this by you, it is very simple, so perhaps someone more experienced can easily identify my misstake. This is what I came up with:
Models and data:
public class StoryDB : DbContext
{
public DbSet<Story> Stories { get; set; }
}
public class Story
{
[Key]
public int StoryID { get; set; }
public string zestory { get; set; }
}
public class StoryViewModel
{
public Story stry;
}
Controller:
//
// GET: /Story/Create
[HttpGet]
public ActionResult Create()
{
StoryViewModel svm = new StoryViewModel();
svm.stry = new Story();
return View(svm);
}
//
// POST: /Story/Create
[HttpPost]
[ValidateAntiForgeryToken]
public ActionResult Create(StoryViewModel svm)
{
if (ModelState.IsValid)
{
db.Stories.Add(svm.stry);
db.SaveChanges();
return RedirectToAction("Index");
}
return View(svm);
}
View:
@model MvcApplication7.Models.StoryViewModel
@{
ViewBag.Title = "Create";
}
<h2>Create</h2>
@using (Html.BeginForm()) {
@Html.AntiForgeryToken()
@Html.ValidationSummary(true)
<fieldset>
<legend>Story</legend>
@Html.HiddenFor(model => model.stry.StoryID)
<div class="editor-label">
@Html.LabelFor(model => model.stry.zestory)
</div>
<div class="editor-field">
@Html.EditorFor(model => model.stry.zestory)
@Html.ValidationMessageFor(model => model.stry.zestory)
</div>
<p>
<input type="submit" value="Create" />
</p>
</fieldset>
}
@section Scripts {
@Scripts.Render("~/bundles/jqueryval")
}
This is the HTML it produces:
<form action="/Story/Create" method="post"><input name="__RequestVerificationToken" type="hidden" value="v0wlNDXbhykfe6IKOep6WMSZVteTDNPdgUVkQ8VcW4RW2oo-ufJSdVkN70Y0OHI4if56HrZiGLaGVy9UzlsoTkKXm963ZwRfJsuBZSVs9uQ1" /> <fieldset>
<legend>Story</legend>
<input data-val="true" data-val-number="The field StoryID must be a number." data-val-required="The StoryID field is required." id="stry_StoryID" name="stry.StoryID" type="hidden" value="0" />
<div class="editor-label">
<label for="stry_zestory">zestory</label>
</div>
<div class="editor-field">
<input class="text-box single-line" id="stry_zestory" name="stry.zestory" type="text" value="" />
<span class="field-validation-valid" data-valmsg-for="stry.zestory" data-valmsg-replace="true"></span>
</div>
<p>
<input type="submit" value="Create" />
</p>
</fieldset>
</form>
And what happens is that there is no databinding I can notice, and it crashes on trying to save with an error due to the incomming viewmodel's Story stry being null.
I have also tried to create new viewmodel and belonging story and filling them with TryUpdateModel() with the result that empty entries were made into the database.
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