I have a dictionary I'm passing to a View. I want to be able to pass the values of that dictionary back to a Controller action from this same View. Is there anyway this can be accomplished without using a form? The situation is that I need to be able to pass these back to a controller action that is called when a user clicks an ActionLink from the View, and in my experience an ActionLink cannot be used to submit a values of a form, i.e. I've only been able to submit values of a form using the form's submit button. Unless there's a way to use an ActionLink to submit values in a form.
Controller Action passes Dictionary to Controller in ViewData:
public ActionResult ModifyNewCrossListing(FormCollection form)
{
Dictionary<int, string> prefixlist = new Dictionary<int, String>();
ViewDatap["prefixList"] = prefixlist;
}
View prints out content of Dictionary, ActionLink calls another controller action, which is where I want to access the dictionary:
<%int i = 0;
if ((ViewData["prefixList"] as Dictionary<int, string>).Count >= 1)
{
foreach (var cp in (ViewData["prefixList"] as Dictionary<int, string>))
{
if (cp.Value == (ViewData["prefixList"] as Dictionary<int, string>).Last().Value)
{%>
<%= Html.Encode(cp.Value)%>
<%}
else
{%>
<%= Html.Encode(cp.Value)%> -
<%}
}
} %>
<%=Html.ActionLink("View All Criteria", "ShowAllCriteria", new { prefixList = ViewData["prefixList"] as Dictionary<int, string> })%>)
And finally, in my new controller action, I want to be able to access the dictionary
public ActionResult ShowAllCriteria(Dictionary<int, string> prefixList)
{
//Do stuff
}
