How do you handle multiple submit buttons in ASP.NET MVC Framework?

Question

Is there some easy way to handle multiple submit buttons from the same form? For example:

<% Html.BeginForm(\"MyAction\", \"MyController\", FormMethod.Pos         


        

Answer 1

this is the best way that i have found:

http://iwayneo.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/aspnet-mvc-action-selector-with-list.html

Here is the code:

    /// 

    /// ActionMethodSelector to enable submit buttons to execute specific action methods.
    /// 
    public class AcceptParameterAttribute : ActionMethodSelectorAttribute
   {
        /// 

        /// Gets or sets the value to use to inject the index into
        /// 
       public string TargetArgument { get; set; }

       /// 

       /// Gets or sets the value to use in submit button to identify which method to select. This must be unique in each controller.
       /// 
       public string Action { get; set; }

       /// 

       /// Gets or sets the regular expression to match the action.
       /// 
       public string ActionRegex { get; set; }

       /// 

       /// Determines whether the action method selection is valid for the specified controller context.
       /// 
       /// The controller context.
       /// Information about the action method.
       /// true if the action method selection is valid for the specified controller context; otherwise, false.
       public override bool IsValidForRequest(ControllerContext controllerContext, MethodInfo methodInfo)
       {

           if (controllerContext == null)
           {
               throw new ArgumentNullException("controllerContext");
           }

           Func formGetter;
           Func queryStringGetter;

           ValidationUtility.GetUnvalidatedCollections(HttpContext.Current, out formGetter, out queryStringGetter);

           var form = formGetter();
           var queryString = queryStringGetter();

           var req = form.AllKeys.Any() ? form : queryString;

           if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(this.ActionRegex))
           {
               foreach (var key in req.AllKeys.Where(k => k.StartsWith(Action, true, System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture)))
               {
                   if (key.Contains(":"))
                   {
                       if (key.Split(':').Count() == this.ActionRegex.Split(':').Count())
                       {
                           bool match = false;
                           for (int i = 0; i < key.Split(':').Count(); i++)
                           {
                               if (Regex.IsMatch(key.Split(':')[0], this.ActionRegex.Split(':')[0]))
                               {
                                   match = true;
                               }
                               else
                               {
                                   match = false;
                                   break;
                               }
                           }

                           if (match)
                           {
                               return !string.IsNullOrEmpty(req[key]);
                           }
                       }
                   }
                   else
                   {
                       if (Regex.IsMatch(key, this.Action + this.ActionRegex))
                       {
                           return !string.IsNullOrEmpty(req[key]);
                       }
                   }

               }
               return false;
           }
           else
           {
               return req.AllKeys.Contains(this.Action);
           }
       }
   }

Enjoy a code-smell-less multi submit button future.

thank you