Umbraco AJAX partial view controller action call - unable to retrieve the Umbraco.Context

Question

I have the following scenario: Calendar page that loads the initial sale nodes from last 2 months. This page has a Load more button that fetches more Sale<

Answer 1

EDIT: Added fixed implementation.

I was able to resolve the issue by setting the CultureInfo before returning the PartialView like so: System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = new CultureInfo(culture)

The action method looks like this:

public ActionResult LoadMoreSales(int months = 0, string culture = "")
{
        // Set the 'CultureInfo' to perserve 'UmbracoContext' when performing an AJAX call
        System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = new CultureInfo(culture);

        if (Request.IsAjaxRequest())
        {
            if (Request.QueryString["department"] == null)
            {
                return PartialView("Calendar/_Sales", GetSales(0, months));
            }
            else
            {
                int depId = 0;
                Int32.TryParse(Request.QueryString["department"], out depId);

                return PartialView("Calendar/_Sales", GetSales(depId, months));
            }
        }
        else
        {
            return PartialView("Calendar/_Sales");
        }
}

I have added the hidden cultureInfo tag in the .cshtml:

<div id="cultureInfo" hidden>@System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture</div>

The jQuery was also modified to read and pass the hidden value to the controllers action like so:

        var cultureInfo = $('#cultureInfo').html();

        $.get("/umbraco/surface/Calendar/LoadMoreSales?months=" + months + "&culture=" + cultureInfo, function (data) {
            if (data != '') {
                $("#saleList").append(data);
            }
            else {
                months = -1;
                $("#saleList").append('No more news to display');
            }

            _inCallback = false;
            $('div#loading').empty();
        });

There was no need to change .cshtml file, the dictionary values are being loaded correctly.

Answer 2

Marko,

This was in v6 but similar issue, so in the partial i did

var umbracoHelper = new UmbracoHelper(UmbracoContext.Current); Regards

Ismail