Saving data on postback in Orchard - orchardcms

Question

I'm an Orchard newbie and I'm having difficulty trying to get the form data when a new item is created.
What I have is a module that creates a menu item on the admin dashboard. That menu item will load a page where a user can enter a new "Coach".
There are 3 things needed for a coach, first name, last name and email.
Here's the code I have implemented for this...
migrations.cs
public class SDSDataMigration : DataMigrationImpl
{
public int Create()
{
SchemaBuilder..CreateTable("CoachPartRecord", table => table.ContentPartRecord()
.Column("FirstName", DbType.AnsiString, c => c.WithLength(50))
.Column("LastName", DbType.AnsiString, c => c.WithLength(50))
.Column("Email", DbType.AnsiString, c => c.WithLength(200)))
ContentDefinitionManager.AlterPartDefinition("CoachPart", part => part
.WithField("FirstName", f => f.OfType("TextField"))
.WithField("LastName", f => f.OfType("TextField"))
.WithField("Email", f => f.OfType("TextField"))
);
ContentDefinitionManager.AlterTypeDefinition("Coach", type => type.WithPart("CommonPart")
.WithPart("CoachPart"));
return 1;
}
}
parts/records
public class CoachPartRecord : ContentPartRecord
{
public virtual string FirstName { get; set; }
public virtual string LastName { get; set; }
public virtual string Email { get; set; }
}
public class CoachPart : ContentPart<CoachPartRecord>
{
public string FirstName
{
get { return Record.FirstName; }
set { Record.FirstName = value; }
}
public string LastName
{
get { return Record.LastName; }
set { Record.LastName = value; }
}
public string Email
{
get { return Record.Email; }
set { Record.Email = value; }
}
}
view for creating editor
#{ Layout.Title = T("Add Coach").ToString(); }
#using (Html.BeginFormAntiForgeryPost()) {
// Model is a Shape, calling Display() so that it is rendered using the most specific template for its Shape type
#Display(Model)
}
handler
public class CoachPartHandler : ContentHandler
{
public CoachPartHandler(IRepository<CoachPartRecord> repository)
{
Filters.Add(StorageFilter.For(repository));
}
}
driver
protected override DriverResult Editor(CoachPart part, IUpdateModel updater, dynamic shapeHelper)
{
updater.TryUpdateModel(part, Prefix, null, null);
return Editor(part, shapeHelper);
}
controller (for dashboard menu item)
public ActionResult Create()
{
var coach = _services.ContentManager.New("Coach");
var model = _services.ContentManager.BuildEditor(coach);
return View(model);
}
[HttpPost, ActionName("Create")]
public ActionResult CreatePOST()
{
var contentItem = _services.ContentManager.New("Coach");
_services.ContentManager.Publish(contentItem);
return View("Index");
}
Right now I can get the form to appear to create a new coach. When I hit "Publish" all of the fields (i.e. FirstName, LastName, Email) for the CoachPart parameter in the driver are null.
I can look at the http request and I can see the values I put on the form, but they're not making it to the CoachPart.
Any ideas why the CoachPart fields aren't getting filed in?
Thanks!

Answer 1

First of all, you are defining the properties on your own record. Therefore you don't need new textfields attached to your part, so you should remove this:
ContentDefinitionManager.AlterPartDefinition("CoachPart", part => part
.WithField("FirstName", f => f.OfType("TextField"))
.WithField("LastName", f => f.OfType("TextField"))
.WithField("Email", f => f.OfType("TextField")));
Secondly, because you use your custom controller istead of orchard's content controller, you must implement the IUpdateModel and act on it:
[Admin]
public class MyController : Controller, IUpdateModel {
private readonly IContentManager _contentManager;
private readonly ITransactionManager _transactionManager;
public MyController(IContentManager contentManager,
ITransactionManager transactionManager) {
_contentManager = contentManager;
_transactionManager = transactionManager;
}
[HttpPost, ActionName("Create")]
public ActionResult CreatePOST()
{
var contentItem = _contentManager.New<CoachPart>("Coach");
// The implementation of IUpdateModel is necessary for this next line:
var model = _contentManager.UpdateEditor(contentItem, this);
if (!ModelState.IsValid) {
_transactionManager.Cancel();
return View(model);
}
_contentManager.Publish(contentItem);
return View("Index");
}
bool IUpdateModel.TryUpdateModel<TModel>(TModel model, string prefix, string[] includeProperties, string[] excludeProperties) {
return TryUpdateModel(model, prefix, includeProperties, excludeProperties);
}
void IUpdateModel.AddModelError(string key, LocalizedString errorMessage) {
ModelState.AddModelError(key, errorMessage.ToString());
}
}