RenderAction calls wrong action method

Question

I'm struggling with renderaction, the problem is that it calls the wrong action method on my controller.

On my "Users" controller there are two action methods called edit, one for get and one for post requests:

public virtual ActionResult Edit(int id)
{
 //return a view for editing the user
}


[AcceptVerbs(HttpVerbs.Post)]
public virtual ActionResult Edit(UserViewModel model)
{
 //modify the user...
}

In my view, I'm calling Renderaction it as follows:

Html.RenderAction("Edit", "Users", new { id = 666});

Now the problem is that I want the GET action method to be rendered. However (perhaps because the model also contains a property called ID?), Renderaction calls my POST action method instead.

What's the proper way to do this? I'm using ASP.NET MVC 3 RC in case it matters.

Thanks,

Adrian

Answer 1

Sub action uses HTTP method of its parent action

The problem is that your view is being rendered after a postback action. All sub-action renderings in the view use the same HTTP method. So POST is being replicated on them. I'm not sure about MVC3, but in MVC2 there was no built-in way to overcome this problem.

So the problem is that you want your Edit() action to be rendered as a GET on a POST view. Out of the box. No way.

You can of course do it by providing your own functionality = classes.