Redirect to action and passing reference type

Question

I have a

Filter

type:

public class Filter 

{

   public int FilterId { get; set; }

   public ICollection<int> ModuleIds { get; set; }

}

I need to redirect to action and pass instanse of this type:

public ActionResult Navigate 

{

   var filter = new Filter()

   {

      FilterId = 5,

      ModuleIds = new List<int>() { 6 };

   }



   return RedirectToAction("list", "user", filter);

}

Here is the target action :

public ActionResult List(Filter filter) 

{

  var filterId = filter.FilterId; // = 5

  // but filter.ModuleIds.Count = 0 

}

In a result I got empty

filter.ModuleIds

. So, there is a issue only with reference type.

How can I pass

filter

with all reference properties without using

TempData

?

Also I tried to use but no results

return RedirectToAction("list", "user", new RouteValueDictionary(filter);

and

return RedirectToAction"list", "user", new { filter = filter} );

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Answer 1

You can't pass reference types. The reason is that RedirectToAction doesn't serialize the data, it simply iterates over the properties in the route values object constructing a query string with the keys being the property names and the values the string representation of the property values. If you want to have the Url change, then using TempData is probably the easiest way to do this.

Redirect to action and passing reference type

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