RedirectToAction(..) with complex deep object fails

Question

I\'m trying to pass an object from one controller action to another. The object that I\'m passing around looks more or less like this:

public class Person
{
         


        

Answer 1

For everyone, that really needs to call some action and return view from another controller with complex object and don't want (or can't) to pass object in TempData. I use in my app very ugly but working solution:

protected ActionResult InternalRedirectToAction(string action, string controller, object model)
{
    var htmlHelper = new HtmlHelper(new ViewContext(
                              ControllerContext,
                              new WebFormView(ControllerContext, "HACK"),
                              new ViewDataDictionary(),
                              TempData, //for sharing TempData between Actions
                              new StringWriter()),
                        new ViewPage());

    var otherViewHtml = htmlHelper.Action(action, controller, model);
    return Content(otherViewHtml.ToString());
}

Inspired by answer found here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/4360019/1341409