View using Controller in Another App (ASP.Net)

[cotton31]

Hi,

I'm not really sure how to explain what I'm after, so bear with me!

Essentially, I have an MVC web app using Entity Framework. Let's call this System A

I need to provide part of the functionality of System A (the Create aspect) within System B - it needs to look like System B (so using System B's view layout) but keep all of the additional functionality that System A provides on Creation.

How could I do this?

Let me know if I need to provide more info!

Ta,

 

[cotton31]

Just looking in to adding a Web API now - is it possible to have a method in the web api that essentially calls the method of the existing controller and just passes it data? My existing method already contains a lot code and I think it would be easier to just call this rather than recreate the functionality?

 

[cotton31]

Sorry I probably made the method sound more complex than it actually was!

It's mainly just checking the Model State and then adding the item to the database!

However I do also queue some email sending methods via Hangfire (not sure if you're aware of it?) - these methods live in my controller class - would best practice be to move these elsewhere?

 

[cotton31]

Creating a scaffolded Entity Framework controller does this by default though? Are you saying that this is wrong?

So this is the default code in my scaffolded controller:

[HttpPost]
[ValidateAntiForgeryToken]
public ActionResult Create([Bind(Include = "ID,ItemName,CreatedDate")] Item item)
{
     if (ModelState.IsValid)
     {
          db.Items.Add(item);
          db.SaveChanges();

          return RedirectToAction("Index");
     }

     return View(item);
}