Route to a Local Block Controller with action for AJAX request

Neil Perry

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Does anyone know best way to do an AJAX Post /Get with in a local page block?

E.g. I have a local block on home page, which has its own controller /view etc., but I want to call a separate action result using jQuery Ajax but want the current page and current block content available. I can get to controller by registering a custom route in global but do not have the current page / block content available.

#66541

Mar 04, 2013 15:32

Joel Abrahamsson

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There may be other options but from the top of my head I can only think of one "simple" solution as the local block isn't an entity in it self but a part of the page - add the action to the page's controller.

If the block can also be used a shared block, meaning you want the action in the block's controller you could implement the action in the page's controller to just delegate to the block controller's action.

#66564

Mar 05, 2013 10:20

Neil Perry

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Thanks, as I am using a block controller and my own view model to extend block properties I have passed page content guid to view and used an html 5 data tag for ajax request back to action and load the page info again, this works but probably not the best solution

e.g.

var pageRouteHelper = ServiceLocator.Current.GetInstance<PageRouteHelper>();
if (pageRouteHelper.Page != null)
{
PageContentGuid = pageRouteHelper.Page.ContentGuid;
}

#66577

Mar 05, 2013 15:31

Daniel Badro

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Same problem here, I want to filter a block with ajax, any suggestions other than adding an action to the page controller?

#82578

Mar 14, 2014 16:59

Daniel Ovaska

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Set up Web API and use that instead for AJAX requests?

#82582

Mar 14, 2014 17:45