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C# ASP.NET MVC Forms Creating a Basic Form Adding a POST Action Method

Steven Scott
Steven Scott
7,542 Points
Posted by Steven Scott
Steven Scott
7,542 Points

Not sure what I am doing wrong here. Cans someone help me answer this question and provide a working answer.

In IssuesController.cs add another action method named Report to handle HTTP posts from the form in the Report.cshtml view.

Decorate the action method with an attribute so that MVC will only route POST requests to it. Add a total of six parameters that match the form field names in the Report.cshtml view file in order to capture posted values from the form. Remember to change the first letter of each form field to lowercase (i.e. "Name" to "name"). Use the string data type for each parameter. For now, in the action method, just return a call to the View method.

IssuesController.cs 
using System.Web.Mvc;

namespace IssueReporter.Controllers
{
    public class IssuesController : Controller
    {
        public ActionResult Report()
        {
            return View();
        }
    [report("Report")] 

        [HttpPost]
        public ActionResult Report(

           string name, string email, string departmentId, string severity, string reproducible, string descriptionOfProblem)
        {


            return View();
        }
    }
Report.cshtml 
 Report.cshtml
@{
    ViewBag.Title = "Report an Issue";
}

<h2>@ViewBag.Title</h2>

<form method="post">

    <div>
        <label for="Name">Name</label>
        <input type="text" id="Name" name="Name" />
    </div>

    <div>
        <label for="Email">Email</label>
        <input type="text" id="Email" name="Email" />
    </div>

    <div>
        <label for="DepartmentId">Department</label>
        <input type="text" id="DepartmentId" name="DepartmentId" />
    </div>

    <div>
        <label for="Severity">Severity</label>
        <input type="text" id="Severity" name="Severity" />
    </div>

    <div>
        <label for="Reproducible">Reproducible</label>
        <input type="text" id="Reproducible" name="Reproducible" />
    </div>

    <div>
        <label for="DescriptionOfProblem">Description of Problem</label>
        <textarea id="DescriptionOfProblem" name="DescriptionOfProblem"></textarea>
    </div>

    <button type="submit">Save</button>

</form>

3 Answers

Hakim Rachidi
Hakim Rachidi
38,490 Points

Sorry, I forgot to say that you have to leave the predefined controller.

In the end Issuecontroller.cs should look something like this: 

using System.Web.Mvc;

namespace IssueReporter.Controllers
{
    public class IssuesController : Controller
    {
        public ActionResult Report()
        {
            return View();
        }

    [HttpPost]
        public ActionResult Report(

           string name, string email, string departmentId, string severity, string reproducible, string descriptionOfProblem)
        {
            return View();
        }
   }
}

Now you can just copy it and paste it in to the challenge ;) But don't make any changes to the view.

Hakim Rachidi
Hakim Rachidi
38,490 Points

Take a look

In the comment above you forgot the opening bracket for the Attribute: 

namespace IssueReporter.Controllers { 
public class IssuesController : Controller 
{ public ActionResult Report() { return View(); } 

HttpPost] public ActionResult Report( ...

This could be the mistake.

Steven Scott
Steven Scott
7,542 Points
Steven Scott
Steven Scott
7,542 Points

Hmm that worked I think the problem was it was actually missing a closing curly brace at the end. Noticed that after comparing the 2 codes side by side.

Thanks alot for the help always good to have a second set of eyes or a working code so you can see were you missed something even if it is just a closing tag or a typo.

Hakim Rachidi
Hakim Rachidi
38,490 Points
Hakim Rachidi
Hakim Rachidi
38,490 Points

I wonder why you added a report Attribute (in the Controller).

[report("Report")]

All in all just leave it out and everything should work.

Steven Scott
Steven Scott
7,542 Points
Steven Scott
Steven Scott
7,542 Points

Didn't realize i did that. But I just took it out and it still doesn't work.

Hakim Rachidi
Hakim Rachidi
38,490 Points
Hakim Rachidi
Hakim Rachidi
38,490 Points

Try out the following steps:

  1. Copy your controller out of your question
  2. Reset the challenge and exchange the predefined controller with yours (clipboard)
  3. Delete the Report Attribute

In my case this works fine.

Steven Scott
Steven Scott
7,542 Points
Steven Scott
Steven Scott
7,542 Points

using System.Web.Mvc;

namespace IssueReporter.Controllers { public class IssuesController : Controller { public ActionResult Report() { return View(); } HttpPost] public ActionResult Report(

       string name, string email, string departmentId, string severity, string reproducible, string descriptionOfProblem)
    {


        return View();
    }
}

}

Steven Scott
Steven Scott
7,542 Points
Steven Scott
Steven Scott
7,542 Points

Took out the [report("Report")] .

tried copy and paste it from the clipboard and restart it. still didn't work