.NET MVC - Submitting multiple models of the same type at once

Question

I think I\'ve got a pretty simple scenario but can\'t seem to grasp how to do it in .NET\'s MVC framework. At its simplest, this is a form that has people with a ranking. I\'d

Answer 1

I did a quick example using a Customer object, but I think it's similar. Note how the form fields are labeled. Prefixed with name of parameter in action in controller. Index is needed to treat as a collection. Yours might be slightly more complex, because you have a nested class. (Person inside of ballot). I think by doing customers[@counter].Person.Id for form fields would work though. Sorry I didn't have an example with ballots. :)

This would be the relevant part of the View:

@using (Html.BeginForm())
{
    var counter = 0;
    foreach (var customer in this.Model)
     {
         <input type="text" name="customers[@counter].Id" value="@customer.Id"/>
         <input type="text" name="customers[@counter].CompanyName" value="@customer.CompanyName"/>
         counter++;
     }
     <input type="submit" />
}

and this would be the relevant part of the controller:

public ActionResult Test()
{
    return View(Service.GetCustomers());
}

[HttpPost]
public ActionResult Test(Customer[] customers )
{
    return View(customers);
}