Is there a way to return an HTML string from rendering a partial as part of a JSON response from MVC?
public ActionResult ReturnSpecialJsonIfInvalid(AwesomenessModel model)
{
if (ModelState.IsValid)
{
if(Request.IsAjaxRequest()
return PartialView("NotEvil", model);
return View(model)
}
if(Request.IsAjaxRequest())
{
return Json(new { error=true, message = PartialView("Evil",model)});
}
return View(model);
}
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ajax
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Instead of RenderViewToString
I prefer a approach like
return Json(new { Url = Url.Action("Evil", model) });
then you can catch the result in your javascript and do something like
success: function(data) {
$.post(data.Url, function(partial) {
$('#IdOfDivToUpdate').html(partial);
});
}
Url.Action("Evil", model)
will generate a get query string but your ajax method is post and it will throw error status of 500(Internal Server Error). – Fereydoon Barikzehy Feb 14 at 9:51
Just Add "JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet" on your Json object.
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