File upload bound to the Viewmodel
Solution 1
The fix to this is changing the way you Name and ID the upload control.
<%: Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.EmpName, new { maxLength = 50 })%>
Upload your files here:
<input type="file" id="FileUploadPackets[0].UpFile" name="FileUploadPackets[0].UpFile" value="ActionHandlerForForm" />
<%: Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.FileUploadPackets[0].UserEnteredDesc )%>
<input type="file" id="FileUploadPackets[1].UpFile" name="FileUploadPackets[1].UpFile" value="ActionHandlerForForm" />
<%: Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.FileUploadPackets[1].UserEnteredDesc )%>
This worked for me!! Hope it helps anyone else out there..
Solution 2
GetHtml
helper is not part of mvc framework, you should look up for third party library containing that helper.
Uploading file that is part of ViewModel is simple though. Basically it goes like this
Define view model
public class MyViewModel
{
public HttpPostedFileBase MyFile { get; set; }
}
Inside Views/Shared/EditorTemplates
, create MyViewModel.cshtml
<input type="file" id="MyFile" name="MyFile" />
And view, corresponding to upload action
@model MyViewModel
@using(Html.BeginForm("Upload", "MyController", FormMethod.Post, new { enctype="multipart/form-data"})
{
@Html.EditorForModel()
<input type="submit" value="Upload" />
}
required attribute is important to upload files.
And that's it, once form is submitted, you should see uploaded file inside [HttpPost]
action, vm.MyFile
.
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user20358
Updated on September 14, 2022Comments
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user20358 over 1 year
I have a form where I am uploading multiple files and there are a couple of textboxes and some checkboxes associated with each file being uploaded. I have seen examples for uploading multiple files where the actionresult signature is something like this:
[HttpPost] public ActionResult Upload(IEnumerable<HttpPostedFileBase> fileUpload)
However, I cant find any example where I can have multiple files uploaded where my actionresult signature is something like this:
[HttpPost] public ActionResult Upload(MyViewModel vm)
The reason I want this viewmodel being posted is because I think its cleaner than using the FormCollection variable and because I want to each file being uploaded and the data added along with its associated textboxes to be grouped together by way of a
List<FileUploadPacket>
which will part of the ViewModelUPDATE
My View model below:
public class EmployeeVM { public int EmployeeID {get ;set;} public string EmpName {get ;set;} //Other properties public List<FileUploadPacket> FileUploadPackets { get; set; } }
The FileUploadPacket class which has the property of type HttpPostedFileBase
public class FileUploadPacket { public int FileID {get ;set;} public string UserEnteredDesc {get ;set;} //some more other properties public HttpPostedFileBase UpFile { get; set; } }
Code snippet of my view.aspx as below
<%: Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.EmpName, new { maxLength = 50 })%> Upload your files here: <input type="file" id="UpFile" name="UpFile" value="ActionHandlerForForm" /> <%: Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.FileUploadPackets[0].UserEnteredDesc )%> <input type="file" id="UpFile" name="UpFile" value="ActionHandlerForForm" /> <%: Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.FileUploadPackets[1].UserEnteredDesc )%>
As you can see, I have all the other properties specific to this one file being uploaded kept in its own class. So that in my form an employee can enter his name and upload his files and provide some description and other details for each file. If I move the public
HttpPostedFileBase UpFile { get; set; }
property to theEmployeeVM
class then I will have to collect all the files separately in an array and manually map a file to its description. Is there no way to do this keeping theUpFile
property in theFileUploadPacket
class itself?I am using the aspx view engine.
Please help. Thanks for your time...
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yu yang Jian over 5 yearsHighlight +1 The enctype="multipart/form-data" part solved it for me.
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Goodies over 3 yearsNote: for VS2019/NET48 the id syntax changed, instead of <input type="file" id="FileUploadPackets[0].UpFile" name="FileUploadPackets[0].UpFile" value="ActionHandlerForForm" /> specify <input type="file" id="FileUploadPackets_0__UpFile" name="FileUploadPackets[0].UpFile" value="ActionHandlerForForm" />