How to call a simple method from controller in MVC

Question

0.00/5 (No votes)

See more:

I am new in MVC I have wrote a simple SMS Send Method in my home controller as shown below

[HttpPost]
      public ActionResult SendSMS()
      {
         // TheTextingDemo.Models.ConfigurationSettings s1 = new Models.ConfigurationSettings();
         // string API_KeY = s1.API_KEY;
          string API_KEY = "<removed>";
          string API_SECRET = "<removed>";
          string TO = "<removed>";
          string Message = "Hello world";
          string sURL;
          StreamReader objReader;

          sURL = "https://www.thetexting.com/rest/sms/json/message/send?api_key=" + API_KEY + "&api_secret=" + API_SECRET + "&to=" + TO + "&text=" + Message;
          WebRequest wrGETURL;
          wrGETURL = WebRequest.Create(sURL);
          try
          {
              Stream objStream;
              objStream = wrGETURL.GetResponse().GetResponseStream();
              objReader = new StreamReader(objStream);
              objReader.Close();
          }
          catch (Exception ex)
          {
              ex.ToString();
          }
        return View();
      }
      public ActionResult About()
      {
          ViewBag.Message = "Your application description page.";

          return View();
      }

on my home page i have shown a form with some textboxes i want to call this method i do not want to change the view below is my html

@model  TheTextingDemo.Models.ConfigurationSettings


<h2>TheTexting SMS GateWay Demo</h2>

<script src="@Url.Content("~/Scripts/jquery.validate.min.js")" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="@Url.Content("~/Scripts/jquery.validate.unobtrusive.min.js")" type="text/javascript"></script>
@Html.ValidationSummary(true, "Login was unsuccessful. Please correct the errors and try again.")
@using (Html.BeginForm())
{
    <div>
        <fieldset>
            <legend>Account Information</legend>
            <div>
                @Html.LabelFor(model => model.API_KEY)
            </div>
            <div>
                @Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.API_KEY)
                @*@Html.ValidationMessageFor(model => model.API_KEY)*@
            </div>
            <div>
                @Html.LabelFor(model => model.API_SECRET)
            </div>
            <div>
                @Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.API_SECRET)
                @*@Html.ValidationMessageFor(model => model.API_SECRET)*@
            </div>
            <div>

                @Html.LabelFor(a => a.To_Number)


            </div>
            <div>

                @Html.TextBoxFor(a => a.To_Number)
                @*@Html.ValidationMessageFor(a => a.To_Number)*@
            </div>
            <div>
                @Html.LabelFor(a => a.TextMessage)


            </div>
            <div>

                @Html.TextBoxFor(a => a.TextMessage)
                @*@Html.ValidationMessageFor(a => a.TextMessage)*@
            </div>

            <br />

            <a href="@Url.Action("SendSMS", "Home")">Add an Admin</a>
          @Url.Action("SendSMS", "Home")
            <input id="Submit" type="submit" value="SendSMS" />

          
        </fieldset>
    </div>

}

How to call this method i have tried number of ways but it says

The resource cannot be found.

weather i do not want to redirect to the next view

What I have tried:

I tried lot of ways url.action and many others

Posted 3-Feb-17 8:10am

Malikdanish

Updated 3-Feb-17 10:35am

Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

v3

Add a Solution

Comments

Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan 3-Feb-17 16:37pm

Remember, never ever share your phone number, email address, passwords or personal tokens or keys online. People are not good here, and they will definitely use these values for evil; spam you, use your resources, send threats to someone imitating you.

Be safe. Never share any credential, if someone wants to help, they will do so by using the resources provided, and will leave if they cannot.

1 solution

Add a Solution

Add your solution here

Treat my content as plain text, not as HTML

Preview 0

…

Existing Members

Sign in to your account

...or Join us

Download, Vote, Comment, Publish.

Your Email
Password
Forgot your password?

Your Email
This email is in use. Do you need your password?
Optional Password

I have read and agree to the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy
Please subscribe me to the CodeProject newsletters

When answering a question please:

Read the question carefully.
Understand that English isn't everyone's first language so be lenient of bad spelling and grammar.
If a question is poorly phrased then either ask for clarification, ignore it, or edit the question and fix the problem. Insults are not welcome.
Don't tell someone to read the manual. Chances are they have and don't get it. Provide an answer or move on to the next question.

Let's work to help developers, not make them feel stupid.

This content, along with any associated source code and files, is licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan · Answer 1 · 2017-02-03T10:34:00

Solution 1

The resource cannot be found (404) means that you are not using the correct URL to access it, your resource is located at some other location. Either you configured the application incorrectly, or you need to check the URL being accessed. What they are, only you know.

One thing that I can surely tell you is that you need to use HTTP POST request, as your marked the function as POST acceptor, for that you need to write this in the form; or using JavaScript change the request method to POST, which will be tough. Try this,

C#

@using (Html.BeginForm("SendSMS", "Home", FormMethod.Post))

This will send the request to the server upon submission using POST verb; ASP.NET will accept it this time. Note that it will only send the request, but no data will be read on the server-side, this makes me think a lot of things, such as why do you even want to do this? Why not create a simple interface or a backend class that handles these, and you only do,

C#

smsHelper.SendSms();

That will be much safer way of doing this. It will also help you modify your code later one, if you want to make any further changes.

Posted 3-Feb-17 10:34am

Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

Comments

Malikdanish 4-Feb-17 5:37am

Thanks Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan , basically I have a simple MVC view having four labels and four textboxes i am using API to send sms to any number so my textboxes would have values
1-API_KEY (required to send sms from API Gateway Like thetexting.com)
2-API_SECRET(also required......)
3-TO_Number ( to which i want to send sms)
4-Message(message which need to be send)
for that purposes i write simple class name configuration class
public class ConfigurationSettings
{

[Key]
[ScaffoldColumn(false)]
public int RecordID { get; set; }
// [Required(ErrorMessage = "EmployeeName is required")]
//public string EmployeeName { get; set; }
// [Required(ErrorMessage = "EmployeeID is required")]
// public int EmployeeID { get; set; }
[Required(ErrorMessage = "API_KEY is required")]
public string API_KEY { get; set; }
[Required(ErrorMessage = "API_SECRET is required")]
public string API_SECRET { get; set; }
[Required(ErrorMessage = "API_SECRET address is required")]

[Display(Name = "To_Number")]
public int To_Number { get; set; }
[Required(ErrorMessage = "To_Number is required")]

[DataType(DataType.PhoneNumber)]

public string TextMessage { get; set; }

and my view is

@model TheTextingDemo.Models.ConfigurationSettings

TheTexting SMS GateWay Demo

Malikdanish 4-Feb-17 5:58am

When i remove the [httppost] and put a debug breakpoint then it comes to method but when i make is
httppost then it does not come to my method

Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan 4-Feb-17 6:51am

Yes, that is because while removing you are accepting any HTTP request, but with POST you are asking ASP.NET to only execute this action when the request is of type POST.

Malikdanish 4-Feb-17 7:00am

I have a simple index view in which i have five text box and i have a method in home controller i want to get call this method on button click of a button placed on index method how to achieve this can i send you my code on email