How to get current controller and action from inside Child action?

Question

I have a portion of my view that is rendered via RenderAction calling a child action. How can I get the Parent controller and Action from inside this Child Action.

When I use..

@ViewContext.RouteData.Values["action"]

I get back the name of the Child Action but what I need is the Parent/Calling action.

Thanks

BTW I am using MVC 3 with Razor.

score 74 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 17 '10 at 09:44

74

And if you want to access this from within the child action itself (rather than the view) you can use

ControllerContext.ParentActionViewContext.RouteData.Values["action"]

answered Dec 17 '10 at 09:44

Rupert Bates

3,041
27
20

1

For anyone confused between this answer and JBeckton's answer, the difference is in whether you're getting this value from inside your Controller or inside your View. Use ControllerContext or ViewContext to match as appropriate. The original question appears to be using it from within a View given the starting @ sign for the code. – TheAtomicOption Jan 07 '20 at 17:19

score 22 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:01

22

Found it...

how-do-i-get-the-routedata-associated-with-the-parent-action-in-a-partial-view

ViewContext.ParentActionViewContext.RouteData.Values["action"]

edited May 23 '17 at 12:01

Community

1
1

answered Dec 10 '10 at 19:08

JBeckton

7,095
13
51
71

score 17 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 23 '12 at 16:42

If the partial is inside another partial, this won't work unless we find the top most parent view content. You can find it with this:

var parentActionViewContext = ViewContext.ParentActionViewContext;
while (parentActionViewContext.ParentActionViewContext != null)
{
    parentActionViewContext = parentActionViewContext.ParentActionViewContext;
}

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered May 13 '14 at 11:20

I had the same problem and came up with same solution as Carlos Martinez, except I turned it into an extension:

public static class ViewContextExtension
{
    public static ViewContext TopmostParent(this ViewContext context)
    {
        ViewContext result = context;
        while (result.ParentActionViewContext != null)
        {
            result = result.ParentActionViewContext;
        }
        return result;
    }
}

I hope this will help others who have the same problem.

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Aug 15 '12 at 19:29

Use model binding to get the action name, controller name, or any other url values:

routes.MapRoute("City", "{citySlug}", new { controller = "home", action = "city" });

[ChildActionOnly]
public PartialViewResult Navigation(string citySlug)
{
    var model = new NavigationModel()
    {
        IsAuthenticated = _userService.IsAuthenticated(),
        Cities = _cityService.GetCities(),
        GigsWeBrought = _gigService.GetGigsWeBrought(citySlug),
        GigsWeWant = _gigService.GetGigsWeWant(citySlug)
    };

    return PartialView(model);
}

How to get current controller and action from inside Child action?

5 Answers5

Linked

Related