.net - ASP.NET MVC3: Interaction between Partial View and Main View

Question

I have a partial view for contact. Currently the index view shows this partial view for contact details. There is a save button inside the partial view to save the edited data. There is a validation for age while saving the edited data. This much is working fine.

Whenever user edit age and save it, I need to show the corresponding horoscope prediction on the main view. How do we achieve it?

public class ContactEntity
{
    public int ContactID { get; set; }
    public string ContactName { get; set; }

    [Range(18, 50, ErrorMessage = "Must be between 18 and 50")]
    public int ContactAge { get; set; }
}

public class AgeHoroscope
{
    public int Age { get; set; }
    public string HoroscopePrediction { get; set; }
}

//Home Controller

namespace MYContactEditPartialViewTEST.Controllers
{
public class HomeController : Controller
{

    List<AgeHoroscope> horoList = new List<AgeHoroscope>()
    {
        new AgeHoroscope{Age=16,HoroscopePrediction="You are confused"},
        new AgeHoroscope{Age=26,HoroscopePrediction="You are very brilliant"},
        new AgeHoroscope{Age=27,HoroscopePrediction="You are practical"}
    };

    public ActionResult Index()
    {
        AgeHoroscope selectedHoro = horoList[1];
        return View(selectedHoro);
    }

  }
 }

//Contact Controller

namespace MYContactEditPartialViewTEST.Controllers
{
public class ContactController : Controller
{

    public PartialViewResult MyContactDetailEdit()
    {
        Thread.Sleep(500);
        return PartialView(GetContact());
    }


    [HttpPost]
    public PartialViewResult MyContactDetailEdit(string conatcclick)
    {
        //Save to database
        Thread.Sleep(500);
        return PartialView(GetContact());
    }


    private ContactEntity GetContact()
    {
        ContactEntity contactEntity = new ContactEntity();
        contactEntity.ContactID = 1;
        contactEntity.ContactName = "Lijo";
        contactEntity.ContactAge = 26;
        return contactEntity;
    }

 }
}

//Index.cshtml

@model  MYContactEditPartialViewTEST.AgeHoroscope
@{
 ViewBag.Title = "Index";
}

<script src="@Url.Content("~/Scripts/jquery-1.5.1.min.js")" type="text/javascript">       </script>



<script src="@Url.Content("~/Scripts/jquery.validate.min.js")" type="text/javascript"></script>

<script src="@Url.Content("~/Scripts/jquery.validate.unobtrusive.min.js")" type="text/javascript"></script>

<h2>
    Index</h2>

<div>
<a>Your age is <b>@Html.DisplayFor(x => x.Age) </b>and the prediction is <b>" @Html.DisplayFor(x => x.HoroscopePrediction)
    " </b></a>
<br />
 </div>
<div style="border: 3px solid Teal">
@Html.Action("MyContactDetailEdit", "contact")
</div>

// MyContactDetailEdit.cshtml

@model  MYContactEditPartialViewTEST.ContactEntity


@using (Html.BeginForm())
{
@Html.ValidationSummary(true)

<h3>MyContactDetailEdit PARTIAL</h3>

<div>
@Html.HiddenFor(x => x.ContactID)
<br />
<div style="font-weight:bold"> 
    Name:
    <br />
</div>
@Html.DisplayFor(x => x.ContactName)
<br />
<br />
<div style="font-weight:bold">
    Age
    <br />
</div>
@Html.EditorFor(x => x.ContactAge)
@Html.ValidationMessageFor(model => model.ContactAge)
<br />
<br />
</div>

 <input type="submit" id="saveButton" value="Save" />

}

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Answer 1

I would like just use jQuery to do ajax post and then change the parent view client side directly