ASP.NET MVC Access model data in masterpage
- by Paul
I have created a UserSiteBaseController that gets commonly used data and sets the data to a UserSiteBaseViewData viewmodel in a method called SetViewData
public T CreateViewData<T>() where T : UserSiteBaseViewData, new()
{
....
}
I then create specific Controllers that inherit from the UserSiteBaseController as well as viewModels that inherit from UserSiteHomeViewData and can be created in the controller like so:
public ActionResult Index(string slug)
{
Slug = slug;
var viewData = CreateUserSiteHomeViewData<UserSiteHomeViewData>();
//If invalid slug - throw 404 not found
if (viewData == null)
return PageNotFound();
viewData.Announcements = _announcementsData.All(slug).ToList();
return View(viewData);
}
private T CreateUserSiteHomeViewData<T>() where T : UserSiteHomeViewData, new()
{
T viewData = CreateViewData<T>();
return viewData;
}
The UserBaseViewData holds data that needs to be use on every page so it would be great to be able to access this data from the Masterpage in a strongly typed manner. Is this possible or am I going about this in the incorrect manner?
