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Block controller not used when rendering local block

Thomas Krantz

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I'm upgrading to 7.5 and having some issues getting a block to work. I have a local block in a page type such as:

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public virtual KeepUpdatedBlock KeepUpdated { get; set; }

I render it using:

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@Html.PropertyFor(x => x.CurrentPage.KeepUpdated)

The block has a controller:

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public class KeepUpdatedController : BlockController<KeepUpdatedBlock>

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{

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    public override ActionResult Index(KeepUpdatedBlock currentBlock)

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    {

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        KeepUpdatedViewModel model = new KeepUpdatedViewModel()

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        {

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           ...

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        };

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        return PartialView("KeepUpdatedBlock", model);

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    }

Problem is, the controller is not obviously not used and I can't figure out why.

The model item passed into the dictionary is of type 'Castle.Proxies.KeepUpdatedBlockProxy', but this dictionary requires a model item of type 'xxx.Web.Models.ViewModels.KeepUpdatedViewModel'.

Clues?

#81329

Feb 14, 2014 10:58

Johan Björnfot

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You can hopefully get some more information if you turn on log4net logging on debug level for EPiServer.Web.TemplateResolver.

#81341

Feb 14, 2014 12:39

Niklas Wanngren

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If you take in a dependency to TemplateResolver somewhere you can probably do something like this to help you debug.

var Template = _templateResolver.Resolve(httpContext, typeof(KeepUpdatedBlock), currentBlock, TemplateTypeCategories.MvcPartial, YourRenderingTag);

#81342

Feb 14, 2014 12:46

Thomas Krantz

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Thanks. I had some weirdness going on in my viewengine, that weren't visible in 7.0. Solved now!

#81366

Feb 14, 2014 20:06

valdis

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Beaware that if your block type name matches view name - your controller may have been omitted. You would need to decorate that with TemplateDescriptor or implement IRenderTemplate<T> somehow, or name your view as partial (for instance starting with "_") and return view from controller explicitly.

#81383

Feb 16, 2014 22:08

Trí Lâm

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Hi Thomaz, How did you resolved this issue. I got an error like yours today under upgrading. Could you give me a clue?

Thanks.

T.Dzung

#81996

Mar 03, 2014 12:49

Henrik Fransas

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TDLA. I also just run into this and doing like Valdis said helped me. Meaning that I renamed my block to start with a _ (common MVC naming).

#82010

Mar 04, 2014 7:49

Trí Lâm

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Thank you Henrik! I just did like you/Vadis said and the error are gone, it's working! :-)

#82013

Mar 04, 2014 9:46

Henrik Fransas

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Good to know TDLA!
Maby Thomas can mark my an Valdis answer as answer?

#82014

Mar 04, 2014 9:48

Fredrik Stolpe

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We encountered this exact problem too, and Valdis answer gave the solution.

Maybe this should be changed so that the if you have created a custom controller for a block it is used even if there is a view matching the name?

#82714

Mar 18, 2014 15:09

valdis

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This design decision (to skip controller) was based on performance considerations. It's much faster to skip controller invoking than not to skip ;)

#82718

Mar 18, 2014 16:06

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