public virtual ActionResult BatchEdit(UpdateListPageModel items)
{
if (items is null)
{
throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(items));
}
//This will be used to hold the returned entities while we build our return object
List <object> Entities = this.GetEntitiesByGuids(items.Guids.Select(s => Guid.Parse(s)).ToList());
//We're gonna use this to determine the eventual return type of the list
Type commonType = Entities.GetCommonType();
DynamicRenderer renderer = new DynamicRenderer(new DynamicRendererSettings(commonType, this.FileProvider)
{
ExactOnly = true
});
BatchEditModelPageModel BEmodel = new BatchEditModelPageModel
{
Guids = items.Guids,
Template = Activator.CreateInstance(commonType)
};
MetaObject model = new MetaObject(BEmodel, Constructor);
model.Hydrate();
return(this.View(model));
}
/// <summary>
/// Accepts a form post of Guids and uses that post to generate an intermediate page for updating a collection of objects
/// </summary>
/// <returns>The view for the intermediate page containing the update types allowed for object collections</returns>
public virtual ActionResult UpdateList()
{
UpdateListPageModel model = new UpdateListPageModel();
foreach (string key in this.Request.Form.Keys.Where(s => Guid.TryParse(s, out Guid _)))
{
model.Guids.Add(key);
}
return(this.View(model));
}