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HomeHomeDevelopment and...Development and...Building ExtensionsBuilding ExtensionsModulesModulesHow to make an action in my controller HTTP POST?How to make an action in my controller HTTP POST?
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10/17/2018 9:53 AM
 
James Maher


Joined: 1/23/2017
Posts: 18
I am trying to send a string of information to my module's backend code using a form with a submit input. The problem is that, currently, this information gets sent via HTTP GET. This means that a malicious actor could construct a URL containing invalid data that, due to this being done over HTTP GET, would cause this invalid data to get inserted into my site's database. To prevent this from happening, I added an [HttpPost] annotation to the top of the "Submit" method. However, after doing this, I now get a ModuleLoadException when I try to submit the form, complaining about there being no "Submit" action. Why does DNN expect the Submit action to be HTTP GET, and how can I change it to be HTTP POST?
 
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10/18/2018 9:52 AM
 
James Maher


Joined: 1/23/2017
Posts: 18
Okay, so what I did was I replaced the plain <a href="@Url.Action("MY_ACTION", "MY_CONTROLLER)"/> with a jQuery AJAX call for this same action and controller. In the "beforeSend" section of the jQuery AJAX call, I added the following parameters
request.setRequestHeader("ModuleId", @Dnn.ModuleContext.ModuleId);
request.setRequestHeader("TabId", @Dnn.ModuleContext.TabId);
request.setRequestHeader("RequestVerificationToken", $("input[name='__RequestVerificationToken']").val());
By adding these parameters, I can verify that the request did, indeed, come from an authorized user.
To pass the data from the form to the action, I added the following section to the jQuery AJAX call:
data: JSON.stringify({ PARAM_1: param1, PARAM_2: param2 })
The complete jQuery AJAX call looks like this:
$.ajax({
url: "@Url.Action("ACTION", "CONTROLLER")",
type: 'post',
beforeSend: function (request) {
request.setRequestHeader("ModuleId", @Dnn.ModuleContext.ModuleId);
request.setRequestHeader("TabId", @Dnn.ModuleContext.TabId);
request.setRequestHeader("RequestVerificationToken", $("input[name='__RequestVerificationToken']").val());
},
success: function (data) {
var resp;
// trim response from HTML that, for some reason, gets appended to the response
if (data.indexOf('<!DOCTYPE') !== -1) {
resp = data.substring(0, data.indexOf('<!DOCTYPE'));
} else {
resp = data;
}
if (resp !== '1')
{ a l e r t('Submit failed. Error: ' + resp);
}else{
a l e r t(‘Submit succeeded.’);
},
error: function (jqXHR, exception) {
var msg = '';
if (jqXHR.status === 0) {
msg = 'Not connect.\n Verify Network.';
} else if (jqXHR.status === 404) {
msg = 'Requested page not found. [404]';
} else if (jqXHR.status === 500) {
msg = 'Internal Server Error [500].';
} else if (exception === 'rerror') {
msg = 'Requested JSON parse failed.';
} else if (exception === 'timeout') {
msg = 'Time out error.';
} else if (exception === 'abort') {
msg = 'Ajax request aborted.';
} else {
msg = 'Uncaught Error.\n' + jqXHR.responseText;
}
a l e r t('Submit failed: ' + msg);
},
data: JSON.stringify({ submitText: submitText, urlParams: urlParams })
});

Next, I added the following section to the <moduleControls> section of the module's ".dnn" manifest file:
<modulecontrol>
<controlkey>ACTION</controlkey>
<controlSrc>NAMESPACE/CONTROLLER/ACTION.mvc</controlSrc>
<supportsPartialRendering>True</supportspartialrendering>
<controlTitle/>
<controlType>View</controlType>
<iconFile/>
<helpFile/>
<viewOrder>0</viewOrder>
</modulecontrol>
Finally, in the controller, I added the following method:
[HttpPost]
public ActionResult ACTION()
{
Stream req = Request.InputStream;
req.Seek(0, System.IO.SeekOrigin.Begin);
string strData = new StreamReader(req).ReadToEnd();
List parameters = new List();
var pairs = JObject.Parse(strData);
foreach (KeyValuePair<string> pair in pairs)
{
parameters.Add(new Field { Name = pair.Key, Value = (string)pair.Value });
}
// rest of the code to save the parameters to the database
if (success) {
return Content("1"); // return this if submission succeeded
} else {
return Content("0"); // return this if submission failed
}
}
If anyone sees a problem with this, or has questions, feel free to reply or PM me.
 
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