Posting a form best practice

[Felipe Casanova]

What would be the recommended option from the following? A MVC form contains a number of grids some with checkboxes and some with the standard input elements. All of these form components should be validated together and submitted back to the server in one go. Would templates for the grids be possible and best? With templates I can specify the input element names such that collections are populated automatically by the MVC binder for my action method parameter object e.g. <input name="myobjectscollection" type="checkbox"/> Or would converting the entire form to json and sending that be the best way to go? I suspect there is not much difference if both are possible but I want to check if I've missed something.

[Alex Gyoshev]

Hello Matt,

Both approaches should work, and you can choose the one that is more convenient for you. It is likely that using the model binder will be more efficient, since you won't have to parse the JSON on the server, but this depends entirely on your specific use-case.

Regards,
Alex Gyoshev
the Telerik team