so I need to get to fetch the names of students in a list of student object that is in a view's model then send them to the server via $.post, the latter I have figured it out but I can't figure out how to iterate through the list of objects. Basically I have this:
//Student object
public class Student
{
public string FirstName { get; set; }
public string LastName { get; set; }
//Like a bunch of other attributes here
}
This is the model in the view:
//StudentSearchResult ViewModel
public class StudentSearchResult {
public IEnumerable<Student> { get; set;}
}
At first I though of just sending the student list object as is, but it may not be a good idea as it is bundled with too many attributes (it gave me this 'circular' error when I tried to send the model) and I only really need to send the concatenated FirstName and LastName to the controller using the $.post method I already have. I tried things like these:
var names = []
var length = "@Model.StudentSearchResult.count()";
for (int i = 0; i < length; i++)
{
names[] = "@Model.StudentSearchResult[i].Name + @Model.StudentSearchResult[i].LastName"
}
//$.post function here that calls the controller and send the concatenated names of each student in studentsearchresult.
But I'd get an error that "i" doesn't exists so, how can I iterate in javascript through the list of objects in my view model, access the atributes and concatenate them and then store them on an array of strings so that I may send it to the controller? I imagine the controller would look like this
[HttpPost]
public ActionResult StudentSearchResult(/*other stuff I send here, */ string[] studentNames){
//stuff here
return View();
}
Thanks!
You have some invalid javascript over there.
First start by fixing your view model so that you have a compiling C# code (you were missing a property name):
public class StudentSearchResult
{
public IEnumerable<Student> Students { get; set;}
}
Then assuming your controller actions sends a JSON result to the client (this ensures that the view model is properly JSON encoded and that the application/json
response content type header is sent):
[HttpPost]
public ActionResult StudentSearchResult(/*other stuff I send here, */ string[] studentNames)
{
StudentSearchResult model = ... //stuff here to populate your view model
return Json(model);
}
you could easily iterate on the client using the $.each()
function:
var studentNames = ['name1', 'name2'];
$.post('/Students/StudentSearchResult', studentNames, function(result) {
var students = result.Students;
$.each(students, function() {
alert('FirstName: ' + this.FirstName + ' LastName:' + this.LastName);
});
});
or even a plain ol' for
loop if you prefer:
$.post('/Students/StudentSearchResult', studentNames, function(result) {
var students = result.Students;
for (var i = 0; i < students.length; i++) {
var student = students[i];
alert('FirstName: ' + student.FirstName + ' LastName:' + student.LastName);
}
});
UPDATE:
It looks like I have I made a mistake by believing that you were performing an AJAX request. Instead what you need is access the model properties in javascript. Here's how this could be done:
@model StudentSearchResult
<script type="text/javascript">
var students = @Html.Raw(Json.Encode(Model.Students));
// students is a javascript array that will look like this:
// students = [{"FirstName":"fn1","LastName":"ln1"}, {"FirstName":"fn2","LastName":"ln2"}, ...];
for (var i = 0; i < students.length; i++) {
var student = students[i];
alert('FirstName: ' + student.FirstName + ' LastName:' + student.LastName);
}
</script>
you can use $.each of jquery to iterate the result.
$.each(yourModel,function(){//do with loop});
and for the error. you made mistake in declaration of loop variable
for (var i = 0; i < length; i++)
Looks like what you need is to output the user names to the client as JSON? Try this:
var names = @Model.StudentSearchResult.Select(s => new { s.FirstName, s.LastName }).ToList();
I'm not quite familiar with the Razor syntax, but I think you can still understand the code above.
for (var i = 0; i < length; i++)
instead of
for (int i = 0; i < length; i++)
should work.