Declaring List inside a Model

Question

I have a scenario where I don't want to pass a model as an Ienumerable list to the Razor View.

public class School
{
   public int ID { get; set; }
   public string Name { get; set; }
   public string Address { get; set; }
}

I need to pass the model to view as below.

@model Doc.Web.Models.Common.School

not as

@model IEnumerable<Doc.Web.Models.Common.School>

So, I decalred a List inside the same Model

public class School
{
    public School()
    {
        lstSchool = new List<School>();
    }

    public int ID { get; set; }
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public string Address { get; set; }

    public List<School> lstSchool { get; set; }
}

Then in the controller

public ActionResult Index()
{
   School model= new School();
   SchoolRepository rep = new SchoolRepository();
   model.lstSchool= rep.GetData();//Read list of schools from database
   return View(model);
}

is this the proper way to achieve this?

Answer 1

Why do you want to pass @model Doc.Web.Models.Common.School to the view ? where you need a "list" on your view.

Here is something you can try...

Class structure : Create a SchoolList class

public class School
{
    public int ID { get; set; }
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public string Address { get; set; }
}

public class SchoolList 
{
    public List<School> Schools { get; set; }
}

Pass to view :

@model Doc.Web.Models.Common.SchoolList

Controller :

public ActionResult Index()
{
    SchoolList model= new SchoolList();
    SchoolRepository rep = new SchoolRepository();

    //Read list of schools from database
    model.Schools = rep.GetData(); 

    return View(model);
}

So this way you don't need to pass an IEnumerable to the view and get the job done.