Hi,

I am developing some new modules that fetch data from a remote server using SOAP. I have successfully created the controller, the webcontrol and installed it as a module, added it to a page and got the correct results.

But just now I found out that actually the SOAP method is called 3 or 4 times for each page load!

I have a FormView1 object in webcontrol ViewOrderDetails.ascx which has an ObjectDataSource. And I believe this ObjectDataSource is calling the controller multiple times probably because the Page_Load event is happening multiple times.

I have no clue on why this is happening. Can anyone help me?

Thanks in advance,
Nuno

Hi cnurse,

Thank you. Now at least I know it is normal for a module to get called multiple times.
But unfortunately the call stack seems to be exactly the same for all the times.

There is only one funny thing I notice:

the 1st time it hits the breakpoint the page is still not refreshed;
the 2nd time it displays the DNN administration top bar (where you can add modules and such)
the 3rd time it displays the skin header
the 4th time it displays the left menu and all the pane skeleton
the 5th time finally displays the output of the SOAP call on the content pane

all these times the SOAP call was made!

Another thing: I just have an ObjectDataSource and a FormView and right now all data binding is automatic. Can this be the reason? Should I do it manually?

Thanks,
Nuno

Hi cnurse,
Thank you for your information. Instead of adding caching logic in the controller I configured ObjectDataSource to cache results. It worked fine. I hope this solves it. Actualy I tried to add cache at the controller level but I soon found out that then I'd have to pass it the cache object which would make things unnecessarily more complex. I'll do it if I need a better cache control in specific situations.

Hi Vladan,
Thank you, but I believe this problem is not specific to FormView. It is happening in all my custom modules and most of them use a GridView instead.