How to get the Model from an ActionResult?

Question

I\'m writing a unit test and I call an action method like this

var result = controller.Action(123);

result is ActionResult and

Answer 1

We placed the following piece in a testsbase.cs allowing for typed models in the tests a la

ActionResult actionResult = ContextGet();
var model = ModelFromActionResult(actionResult);

ModelFromActionResult...

public T ModelFromActionResult(ActionResult actionResult)
{
    object model;
    if (actionResult.GetType() == typeof(ViewResult))
    {
        ViewResult viewResult = (ViewResult)actionResult;
        model = viewResult.Model;
    }
    else if (actionResult.GetType() == typeof(PartialViewResult))
    {
        PartialViewResult partialViewResult = (PartialViewResult)actionResult;
        model = partialViewResult.Model;
    }
    else
    {
        throw new InvalidOperationException(string.Format("Actionresult of type {0} is not supported by ModelFromResult extractor.", actionResult.GetType()));
    }
    T typedModel = (T)model;
    return typedModel;
}

An example using a Index page and List:

var actionResult = controller.Index();
var model = ModelFromActionResult>((ActionResult)actionResult.Result);