Autocomplete MVC Action Filter Paramater

[Scott Rakestraw]

When calling an action, what is the best way to access the filter value?  The code below works but know there must be a better way.

 

public JsonResult Autocomplete(int take, int skip, int page, int pageSize)

       {

            

           string filter = Request.QueryString["filter[filters][0][value]"].ToString();

 

           IEnumerable<SearchEntity> searchresults = searchRepository.NameSearch(filter, take, URLType.App).ToList();

 

           var serializer = new JavaScriptSerializer();

           var serialized = serializer.Serialize(searchresults);

 

           return Json(searchresults, JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet);

       }

[Scott Rakestraw]

I did discover I can just pass specific values, which also works.

read: ...,

    parameterMap: function(options)  {

        if (options.filter) {

            return "text=" + options.filter.filters[0].value;

        }

    }