Umbraco, POST when inheriting from RenderMVCController

Question

I have set up a document type in Umbraco, and have created a custom controller & model for this document type.

The custom controller inherits from : RenderMvcController class and the views inherit the model through @inherits Umbraco.Web.Mvc.UmbracoViewPage<com.something.model>

This all works fine for any HttpGet requests. However as soon as I want to do a form post back to the controller using @using (Html.BeginUmbracoForm("SomeAction", "SomeController", null, new { @class = "some-class" }))

I get the following error message: Could not find a Surface controller route in the RouteTable for controller name SomeController

From all the documentation that I was able to find it always refers to SurfaceControllers when it comes to form posts. Is there a way to change the routing so that it would post to my custom controller, rather then another controller that inherits from the SurfaceController class?

Thanks.

Answer 1

You need to inherit your Controller from Umbraco.Web.Mvc.SurfaceController

You can do this in controller like this:

public class DefaultController : Umbraco.Web.Mvc.SurfaceController
{
   Public ActionResult YourMethod()
   {
       return CurrentUmbracoPage();
   }
}

In View you call the Form like:

@using (Html.BeginUmbracoForm("YourMethod", "Default",new { @class = "YourclassName" }))
{
    //DO Something
}

Now final step is to define your Route in RouteConfig.cs in App_Start Folder

 public class RouteConfig
    {
        public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
        {
            routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");

            routes.MapRoute(
                name: "Default",
                url: "{controller}/{action}/{id}",
                defaults: new { controller = "Default", action = "YourMethod", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
            );
        }
    }

Answer 2

Try using this for your form:

@using (Html.BeginUmbracoForm("Post", "ControllerNameWithoutController", System.Web.Mvc.FormMethod.Post, new { @class = "YourclassName" }))

Also your controller must be inherited from SurfaceController

 public class YourControllerNameController : SurfaceController

Answer 3

I believe this is a good solution to allow get and post verbs to the same controller. As you cant inherit from both the RenderMvcController and SurfaceController then I have found this better, it also allows the use of the RenderModel for populating form elements.

 public class ContactUsController : SurfaceController, IRenderController