jquery dialog button to do the same as asp.net mvc submit button

I have tried to figure out a way of letting a jquery dialog button called Create do the same as an asp.net submit button.

<input type="submit" value="Create" />

I am using jquery 1.3.2

I have come up with the following to let the dialog use the correct controller method.

       var url = '<%= Url.Action("Create1", "Home") %>';
       $.post(url,data, 
                            function(data) {
                                alert("Successful. Id for this client is " + data.ClientNo);
                                $("#CreateForm input").attr("value", ""); // Success
                            },
                            "json"); // DataType  

However, the method requires a model parameter

    [Acc开发者_开发问答eptVerbs(HttpVerbs.Post)]
    public ActionResult Create1(ClientDetail client)

Looking at http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.post/ data parameter is a map or string sent to the server

I am wondering is it possible to convert a model into a map or string possibly using the .attr method?

Thank you

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The only thing you have to do is make sure that your post data has the same names as the property values of ClientDetail. So if ClientDetail has two properties: Name and Age, then make sure that the data you post looks like this:

var data = { Name: 'ClientName', Age: 24 };

ASP.NET MVC's DefaultModelBinder will bind the posted data to your ClientDetail object.

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See http://api.jquery.com/submit/

<form id="target" action="destination.html">
  <input type="text" value="Hello there" />
  <input type="submit" value="Go" />
</form>
<div id="other">
  Trigger the handler
</div>

Jquery function:

$('#other').click(function() {
  $('#target').submit();
});

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What I can suggest you to do is : let the signature accept all your parameters, and you on the server side will construct your object, and save it to your data store.

consider the following one:

    [AcceptVerbs(HttpVerbs.Post)]
        public ActionResult Create1(string clientName, string clientTitle, int clientAge)
    {         
           var client = new Client()
                         {
                           name = clientName, 
                           title = clientTitle, 
                           age = clientAge, 
                           .., 
                           .., etc
                         } 
    }

let me know if this works for you, and don't forget to mark as answer if it really helped you

Thanks.