when passing a collection to EditorFor(), it generates invalid names for input elements

Question

I have a BookCreateModel which consists of book\'s plane info such as Title, PublishYear & etc plus a collection of book Authors (complex type) :

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Answer 1

I didn't find any solution to this bug yet, but as a workaround I changed my UpdateModel by using a custom wrapper class instead of using a collection directly :

public class BookCreateModel
{
    public string Title { get; set; }
    public int Year { get; set; }
    public BookAuthorsList Authors { get; set; }
}

public class BookAuthorsList
{
    public IList AuthorsList { get; set; }
}

public class AuthorEntryModel
{
    public string FirstName { get; set; }
    public string LastName { get; set; }
}

and thus generated inputs wouldn't make naming issues anymore :)