ASP.NET MVC 5 - ajax.beginform() with null parameters

Question

I'm working on web application project and I'm trying to include search using ajax.

I created a search form using ajax.beginform() and I have a little problem: When my textbox field is empty and I click on search I want the view to return all the entities(like no search is occurred) , but it returns empty view. I tried to check in the controller if the string is null but no success.

1.what value the parameter gets when the text field is empty?

2.how do I send couple of parameters in this form?

Thank you in advance!

Aviv

.cshtml - View

@using (Ajax.BeginForm("BranchSearch", "Branches",
        new AjaxOptions { HttpMethod = "POST", InsertionMode = InsertionMode.Replace, UpdateTargetId = "searchResults" }))
{
    <h3>Search:</h3>
    <p>Branch name :</p>@Html.TextBox("Search", null, new { id = branchname"})
    <input type="submit" value="Search" class="btn btn-primary" />
}

.cs - Controller

public PartialViewResult BranchSearch(String branchname, String country)
{
   List<Branches> model = (from p in db.Branches
                       select p).ToList();

   if(branchname!=null)
      {
        model = model.Where(x => x.BranchName.Equals(branchname)).ToList();
      }

        return PartialView("BranchSearch",model);
}

Where is the "Country " param coming from ... ??

Rohit Kumar
– Rohit Kumar

2017-10-15 04:53:54 +00:00
Commented Oct 15, 2017 at 4:53 — Rohit Kumar
– Rohit Kumar, Commented Oct 15, 2017 at 4:53

Shyju · Accepted Answer · 2017-10-14 23:17:43Z

2

When user does not enter anything in the input search box and submit the form, the script will send an empty string. So you should check for null or empty string.

if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(branchname))
{
    model = model.Where(x => x.Branchname.Equals(branchname)).ToList();
}

Also your action method parameter name should match with your input element name.

@Html.TextBox("branchname")

Also, You do not need to call ToList() before your Where clause. You can call that at the very end and that time the LINQ query expression will be evaluated and will give you the filtered results. If you want to use the case insensitive search, use one of the case insensitive StringComparison enum value in the Equals method overload.

public PartialViewResult BranchSearch(String branchname, String country)
{
    IQueryable<Branch> model = db.Branches;
    if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(branchname))
    {
        model = model.Where(x => x.BranchName.Equals(branchname
                                      ,StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase));
    }
    // Now we are ready to query the db and get results. Call ToList()
    var result = model.ToList();
    return PartialView("BranchSearch", result);
}

If you want to execute multiple filters , add another Where clause on the model before you call ToList()(Same as what we did for branchName)

edited Oct 14, 2017 at 23:17

answered Oct 14, 2017 at 23:04

Shyju

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Rohit Kumar Over a year ago

@Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.BranchName, new { @class = "form-control" }) would be more preferred as it will create an input with both name & ID as Branchname & also fire any related validation before submit

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