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

Based on mkozicki answer I come up with a bit different solution. I still use ActionNameSelectorAttribute But I needed to handle two buttons 'Save' and 'Sync'. They do almost the same so I didn't want to have two actions.

attribute:

public class MultipleButtonActionAttribute : ActionNameSelectorAttribute
{        
    private readonly List AcceptedButtonNames;

    public MultipleButtonActionAttribute(params string[] acceptedButtonNames)
    {
        AcceptedButtonNames = acceptedButtonNames.ToList();
    }

    public override bool IsValidName(ControllerContext controllerContext, string actionName, MethodInfo methodInfo)
    {            
        foreach (var acceptedButtonName in AcceptedButtonNames)
        {
            var button = controllerContext.Controller.ValueProvider.GetValue(acceptedButtonName);
            if (button == null)
            {
                continue;
            }                
            controllerContext.Controller.ControllerContext.RouteData.Values.Add("ButtonName", acceptedButtonName);
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }
}

view

controller

 [MultipleButtonAction("Save", "Sync")]
 public ActionResult Sync(OrgSynchronizationEditModel model)
 {
     var btn = this.RouteData.Values["ButtonName"];

I also want to point out that if actions do different things I would probably follow mkozicki post.