post and get with same method signature

Question

In my controller I have two actions called "Friends". The one that executes depends on whether or not it's a "get" versus a "post".

So my code snippets look something like this:

// Get: [AcceptVerbs(HttpVerbs.Get)] public ActionResult Friends() {     // do some stuff     return View(); }  // Post: [AcceptVerbs(HttpVerbs.Post)] public ActionResult Friends() {     // do some stuff     return View(); } 

However, this does not compile since I have two methods with the same signature (Friends). How do I go about creating this? Do I need to create just one action but differentiate between a "get" and "post" inside of it? If so, how do I do that?

Answer 1

Rename the second method to something else like "Friends_Post" and then you can add [ActionName("Friends")] attribute to the second one. So the requests to the Friend action with POST as request type, will be handled by that action.

// Get: [AcceptVerbs(HttpVerbs.Get)] public ActionResult Friends() {     // do some stuff     return View(); }  // Post: [ActionName("Friends")] [AcceptVerbs(HttpVerbs.Post)] public ActionResult Friends_Post() {     // do some stuff     return View(); } 

Answer 2

If you truly only want one routine to handle both verbs, try this:

[AcceptVerbs("Get", "Post")] public ActionResult ActionName(string param1, ...) { //Fun stuff goes here. } 

One potential caveat: I'm using MVC release 2. Not sure if this was supported in MVC 1. The Intellisense documentation for AcceptVerbs should let you know.