I am attempting to use Html.BeginRouteForm to generate the action for a form in my ASP.NET MVC app. The route I am targeting is:
//CREATE
routes.MapRoute("map-config-post", "projects/{projectId}/mapconfigs",
new { controller = controllerName, action = "Create" },
new { httpMethod = new RestfulHttpMethodConstraint("POST") });
Unit testing and following the route in the app is successful. Now, I would like to create an HTML form with this route is it's URL:
@using (Html.BeginRouteForm("map-config-post", new { projectId = Model.Project.Id }))
{
//form stuff
}
This results in an HTML form with a blank action attribute. Googling around, it seems like this is supposed to work. This is a "New" view, so the current (i.e., postback) route is
projects/1/mapconfigs/new
And I want it to post to
projects/1/mapconfigs
which is what the form action should be.
I can manually make this all happen if I don't use the helpers, but then I lose the nice auto-validation stuff on the client-side.
So, any ideas of what I am doing wrong? Hopefully it's clear what I am trying to do.