Grid Querystring Parameters with hyphens are unfriendly to Views

[Shane Milton]

When you have a grid with prefixes turned on, the querystring parameters that are generated end up having hyphens in the name. This becomes VERY unfriendly to Views who wish to use these parameters for server-side functionality (sort/paging/filtering/etc.).

How can we change this behavior or work around it? I have found a workaround that works for strings but nothing that allows me to keep the data as strongly-typed data (i.e. bringing in the page number as an integer 1 rather than as a string "1").

For what it's worth, my work-around is this:

        protected override void OnActionExecuting(ActionExecutingContext filterContext)
        {
            var keys = filterContext.HttpContext.Request.QueryString.AllKeys.Where(k => k.Contains('-'));
            foreach (var key in keys)
            {
                filterContext.ActionParameters[key.Replace('-', '_')] = filterContext.HttpContext.Request.QueryString[key];
            }

            base.OnActionExecuting(filterContext);
        }

[Shane Milton]

For additional discussion and examples, I've posted this question in another form here.

[Shane Milton]

Well, that figures. As soon as I post this on here, I get a work-around in my StackOverflow question. :-P

        public ActionResult Index(
            [Bind(Prefix = "BusinessGrid-page")] int businessGridPage = 1,
            [Bind(Prefix = "BusinessGrid-orderBy")] string businessGridOrderBy = "Name-asc",
            [Bind(Prefix = "BusinessGrid-filter")] string businessGridFilter = "",
            int pageSize = 25)
        {
            {...}
        }

[Atanas Korchev]

Hi Shane Milton,

You can easily avoid that if you do PrefixQueryStringParameters(false). Prefixing is vital if you have more than one grid in your page and use server binding. Without it both grid would page, sort etc.

Regards,
Atanas Korchev
the Telerik team

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[Shane Milton]

Atanas, that's the exact problem and why I had to turn prefixes back on - I need multi-grid support. The [Bind] solution works great for us, though.

:-)

-Shane