Re: ASP.NET MVC setting menu items

>  As a cross cutting concern, I certainly wouldn't want every controller
> method to manually set viewdata for properties and values outside of it's
> concern ... The attribute is probably as close as I want to get to that
> route
>
> Anyone had better success with confit or other solutions I haven't thought
> of?
>
> Casey Charltonhttp://devlicio.us/blogs/casey
>
>
> On 27 Aug 2008, at 08:19, "Torkel Ödegaard" <torkel.odegaard@...>
> wrote:
>
>  Not if each controller method needs to set a specific value :)
>
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Casey Charlton <casey@...<casey%40goinsane.co.uk>>
> wrote:
> > Every controller method having the setting of a property in VIewData is
> > horrible - cross cutting concern - so the attribute removes it from the
> > logic of the controller method ...
> >
> > 2008/8/27 Torkel Ödegaard <torkel.odegaard@...<torkel.odegaard%40gmail.com>
> >
> >>
> >> I have tried some different options for doing this (one of which is
> >> the solution you arrived at).
> >>
> >> The one I tried last was to have typed view data, where there was a
> >> base class for the view model that contained an enum for the active
> >> tab.
> >>
> >> so in the controller you would write something like
> >> var data = new HistoryViewModel()
> >> {
> >> Changes = repository.GetChanges(),
> >> ActiveTab = TabName.History
> >> }
> >> return View(data);
> >>
> >> That is then easily tested from a controller test, the probem with
> >> having action filters setting view data is that it makes testing it a
> >> little more difficult.
> >>
> >> And why is there a difference between remembering to add a
> >> NavigationalHint attribute and remembering to set a property in the
> >> ViewData collection?
> >>
> >> On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 1:13 PM, Casey Charlton <casey@...<casey%40goinsane.co.uk>
> >
> >> wrote:
> >> > Just playing around with a new navigation we have ... and the simplest
> >> > way I
> >> > can think of at the moment to "select" the current page on the menus
> is
> >> > something like :
> >> >
> >> > [NavigationHint("INDUSTRY ANALYSIS", "Headlines")]
> >> > public ActionResult Index()
> >> > {
> >> > return View();
> >> > }
> >> >
> >> > Where the attribute then puts these values into the ViewData
> collection
> >> > for
> >> > the navigation controls to pickup ... this does mean that individual
> >> > methods/controllers don't have to worry about looking this data up or
> >> > remembering to set it
> >> >
> >> > Obviously this means the navigation is set in code rather than in
> >> > configuration ... the slightly messier option to allow some external
> (to
> >> > code) configuration is to put in some kind of lookup in config
> somewhere
> >> > ...
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Any other (better) ideas for cross cutting data like this?
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >
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