Populating jqGrid with data from model view already sent to the client

I'm new to web development. I am currently working on a ASP.NET MVC 2 project that needs to use a jqGrid to dis开发者_JAVA技巧play the results of a search.

Now every single jqGrid tutorial that I found has the grid filled by calling its own specific action in the controller. However, I have various search categories on my page, each with their own form that calls the appropriate action when submitted. Each action then returns a list of results.

Is there a way to populate the jqGrid using the view model that has been returned by one of the search actions? If so, could you specify a small example? If not, how can I populate the jqGrid when submitting search criteria by clicking the submit button?

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Found another way. Upon submitting the action corresponding to the search category still gets used, but instead of returning the results it stores the results in the session cache:

HttpContext.Session["Response"] = _repository.search(criteria);

Then when the page refreshes, the jqGrid action gets used to retrieve the cached results and populates the grid.