I'm new to C#, JS, jQuery, etc.
For a schoolproject I'm building a cinema-website with ASP.NET and C#.
I have come to the point that I think I'm close to the answer, but I can't figure it out.
What is the problem?
At the Index-page of the website the customer can pick a movie to go to the next screen to buy the tickets. There he needs to pick a moment of the movie from a dropdownmenu. The dropdownmenu-code looks like this:
<div class="form-group" style="width: 30%">
@Html.LabelFor(m => Model.Showtime, new { @class = "control-label col-md-2" })
<div>
@Html.DropDownListFor(m => Model.Showtime!.StartAt, new SelectList(Model.ShowList, "Value", "Text"), "Select show", new { @class = "form-control", id = "showList" })
</div>
</div>
I've created a jQuery function that gets the picked Showtime from the dropdownmenu.
This function looks like this:
<script>
$("#showList").change(function() {
var selectedVal = $(this).val();
$.ajax({
type: 'POST',
dataType: 'JSON',
url: '/Orders/GetPickedShowtime/',
data: {showTimeId: selectedVal},
success:
function(response) {
response = JSON.stringify(response)
$('#testShowtime').text(response)
},
error:
function(response) {
console.log("ERROR: ", response)
}
});
})
</script>
In the controller I wrote a function to get the picked Showtime object from the database:
public ActionResult<Showtime> GetPickedShowtime(int showTimeId) {
var show = _context.Showtime!
.Where(s => s.Id == showTimeId);
return Json(show);
}
I used this code: $('#testShowtime').text(response) in my jQuery to test the function in my View with: <h4 id="testShowtime"></h4>. It works. It gives a Array back to the View, like:
[{"id":6987,"startAt":"2022-03-13T18:00:00Z","hallId":3,"movieId":1,"hall":null,"movie":null}]
GREAT! The function seems to work. But what I want to do now is to get the Object from this Json-string into a C# variable. If the customer selects a showtime and some tickets, a button brings them to the next page where the seatselection begins. So the variable with the picked Showtime needs to go there by clicking a button.... And now I'm stuck.
Could someone help me out of this puzzle? I'll buy you a beer :P
Santiago Trujillo
You can use Session variable to store your StoreTime on the server itself. AJAX is used to update a portion of the page without reloading the entire page and in your case, you are unnecessarily complicating things. You can do the following:
In your method, define a Session variable which is always updated when the user selects from the dropdown:
public ActionResult<Showtime> GetPickedShowtime(int showTimeId) {
var show = _context.Showtime!.Where(s => s.Id == showTimeId);
if(show != null)
{
Session["myCurrentShow"] = show;
}
return Json(show);
}
Now once your Session is defined, you can access it on your next ActionMethod. I am giving an example how you would use this Session variable on your last step:
public ActionResult ConfirmShowTime() {
if(Session["myCurrentShow"] != null)
{
Showtime showtime = new Showtime();
//Cast your session here to get the values
showtime = (Showtime)Session["myCurrentShow"];
}
// Your logic
return View();
}