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  • Matthew Kirschner 323 posts 611 karma points
    Feb 23, 2015 @ 17:39
    Matthew Kirschner
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    BeginUmbracoForm can't find my custom surface controller on submisison

    I'm trying to create a custom form in a VS Website Project using Umbraco 7.2.1 and several forms guides (including this one from Our).

    Everything works well up until I attempt to submit my test data, in which I get the exception:

    System.InvalidOperationException: Could not find a Surface controller route in the RouteTable for controller name PatentsSurface

    Am I missing a step to get Umbraco to recognize my surface controller?

    Since this is a website project, I have all my code inside subfolders within the AppCode folder. So the controller in question has a filepath of /AppCode/Controllers/PatentsSurfaceController.cs

    Here is my SurfaceController code:

    public class PatentsSurfaceController : Umbraco.Web.Mvc.SurfaceController
{
    [HttpPost]
    public ActionResult AddPatent(PatentsModel model)
    {
        if (!ModelState.IsValid)
        {
            return CurrentUmbracoPage();
        }

        model.DateModified = DateTime.Now;

        var repo = new PatentsRepository();
        repo.Insert(model);

        return RedirectToCurrentUmbracoPage();
    }
}

    Here is the relevant portion of my view:

    @using (Html.BeginUmbracoForm<PatentsSurfaceController>("AddPatent"))
    {
        <div class="row">
            <div class="small-12 medium-8 medium-centered columns">
                @Html.LabelFor(x => x.PatentName)
                @Html.TextBoxFor(x => x.PatentName)                
                <input type="submit" value="Add Patent" class="button success" />
            </div>
        </div>
    }

    I don't think they're related to the issue, but I could post my repository and model if that will help.

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  • Matthew Kirschner 323 posts 611 karma points
    Feb 23, 2015 @ 20:26
    Matthew Kirschner
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    I was able to get the form to submit by switching the @using statement in my view to:

    @using (Html.BeginForm("AddPatent", "PatentsSurface")

    I would still like to know how to get Umbraco to recognize my /App_Code/ custom surface controllers when using BeginUmbracoForm.

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  • Matthew Kirschner 323 posts 611 karma points
    Feb 24, 2015 @ 19:22
    Matthew Kirschner
    0

    Upgrading to 7.2.2 and going back to using BeginUmbracoForm, I still can't get this to work in my project. I've found some old posts from people with a similar issue and their solution was to give their controllers a namespace. I've done this and Umbraco still fails to find my surface controller.

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  • Rafael Dominguez 2 posts 22 karma points
    Feb 18, 2016 @ 15:53
    Rafael Dominguez
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    We have pretty much the same problem you are describing.

    • SurfaceController in App_code\SurfaceControllers\PartnerRegistrationSurfaceController.cs

    • Partial View: using (Html.BeginUmbracoForm<PartnerRegisterSurfaceController>("PartnerForm", null, new { @id="frmRegistration" }))

    The only difference is that for us this code works until a clear cache (or alike) occurs. After this we get the 'Unable to find surface controller' error.

    If I then move the surface controller file (say one level up) the compile will find it, cache it and it's all good once more. Any help/suggestion is Appreciated.

    -Umbraco version 7.2.8 assembly: 1.0.5675.23466

    `2016-02-18 04:40:23,491 [60] ERROR Umbraco.Core.UmbracoApplicationBase - [P8900/T5/D22] An unhandled exception occurred

    System.InvalidOperationException: Could not find the surface controller of type SurfaceControllers.PartnerRegisterSurfaceController at Umbraco.Web.HtmlHelperRenderExtensions.BeginUmbracoForm(HtmlHelper html, String action, Type surfaceType, Object additionalRouteVals, IDictionary2 htmlAttributes, FormMethod method) at Umbraco.Web.HtmlHelperRenderExtensions.BeginUmbracoForm[T](HtmlHelper html, String action, Object additionalRouteVals, Object htmlAttributes) at ASP._Page_Views_Partials_partnerregistrationform_cshtml.Execute() in c:\inetpub\wwwroot\SOTIWEB2015\Views\Partials\PartnerRegistrationForm.cshtml:line 34 at System.Web.WebPages.WebPageBase.ExecutePageHierarchy() at System.Web.Mvc.WebViewPage.ExecutePageHierarchy() at System.Web.WebPages.WebPageBase.ExecutePageHierarchy(WebPageContext pageContext, TextWriter writer, WebPageRenderingBase startPage) at System.Web.Mvc.RazorView.RenderView(ViewContext viewContext, TextWriter writer, Object instance) at System.Web.Mvc.BuildManagerCompiledView.Render(ViewContext viewContext, TextWriter writer) at Umbraco.Core.Profiling.ProfilingView.Render(ViewContext viewContext, TextWriter writer) at System.Web.Mvc.HtmlHelper.RenderPartialInternal(String partialViewName, ViewDataDictionary viewData, Object model, TextWriter writer, ViewEngineCollection viewEngineCollection) at System.Web.Mvc.Html.PartialExtensions.Partial(HtmlHelper htmlHelper, String partialViewName, Object model, ViewDataDictionary viewData) at System.Web.Mvc.Html.PartialExtensions.Partial(HtmlHelper htmlHelper, String partialViewName, Object model) at ASP._Page_Views_tmpl_PartnerForm_cshtml.Execute() in c:\inetpub\wwwroot\SOTIWEB2015\Views\tmpl_PartnerForm.cshtml:line 58 at System.Web.WebPages.WebPageBase.ExecutePageHierarchy() at System.Web.Mvc.WebViewPage.ExecutePageHierarchy() at System.Web.WebPages.WebPageBase.ExecutePageHierarchy(WebPageContext pageContext, TextWriter writer, WebPageRenderingBase startPage) at System.Web.Mvc.RazorView.RenderView(ViewContext viewContext, TextWriter writer, Object instance) at System.Web.Mvc.BuildManagerCompiledView.Render(ViewContext viewContext, TextWriter writer) at Umbraco.Core.Profiling.ProfilingView.Render(ViewContext viewContext, TextWriter writer) at System.Web.Mvc.ViewResultBase.ExecuteResult(ControllerContext context) at System.Web.Mvc.ControllerActionInvoker.InvokeActionResult(ControllerContext controllerContext, ActionResult actionResult) at System.Web.Mvc.ControllerActionInvoker.&lt;&gt;c__DisplayClass1a.&lt;InvokeActionResultWithFilters&gt;b__17() at System.Web.Mvc.ControllerActionInvoker.InvokeActionResultFilter(IResultFilter filter, ResultExecutingContext preContext, Func1 continuation) at System.Web.Mvc.ControllerActionInvoker.<>cDisplayClass1a.<>cDisplayClass1c.<InvokeActionResultWithFilters>b19() at System.Web.Mvc.ControllerActionInvoker.InvokeActionResultFilter(IResultFilter filter, ResultExecutingContext preContext, Func1 continuation) at System.Web.Mvc.ControllerActionInvoker.&lt;&gt;c__DisplayClass1a.&lt;&gt;c__DisplayClass1c.&lt;InvokeActionResultWithFilters&gt;b__19() at System.Web.Mvc.ControllerActionInvoker.InvokeActionResultWithFilters(ControllerContext controllerContext, IList1 filters, ActionResult actionResult) at System.Web.Mvc.Async.AsyncControllerActionInvoker.<>cDisplayClass25.<>cDisplayClass2a.<BeginInvokeAction>b20() at System.Web.Mvc.Async.AsyncControllerActionInvoker.<>cDisplayClass25.<BeginInvokeAction>b22(IAsyncResult asyncResult) at System.Web.Mvc.Async.AsyncResultWrapper.WrappedAsyncResult1.End() at System.Web.Mvc.Async.AsyncControllerActionInvoker.EndInvokeAction(IAsyncResult asyncResult) at System.Web.Mvc.Controller.&lt;&gt;c__DisplayClass1d.&lt;BeginExecuteCore&gt;b__18(IAsyncResult asyncResult) at System.Web.Mvc.Async.AsyncResultWrapper.&lt;&gt;c__DisplayClass4.&lt;MakeVoidDelegate&gt;b__3(IAsyncResult ar) at System.Web.Mvc.Async.AsyncResultWrapper.WrappedAsyncResult1.End() at System.Web.Mvc.Controller.EndExecuteCore(IAsyncResult asyncResult) at System.Web.Mvc.Async.AsyncResultWrapper.<>cDisplayClass4.<MakeVoidDelegate>b3(IAsyncResult ar) at System.Web.Mvc.Async.AsyncResultWrapper.WrappedAsyncResult1.End() at System.Web.Mvc.Controller.EndExecute(IAsyncResult asyncResult) at System.Web.Mvc.Controller.System.Web.Mvc.Async.IAsyncController.EndExecute(IAsyncResult asyncResult) at System.Web.Mvc.MvcHandler.&lt;&gt;c__DisplayClass8.&lt;BeginProcessRequest&gt;b__3(IAsyncResult asyncResult) at System.Web.Mvc.Async.AsyncResultWrapper.&lt;&gt;c__DisplayClass4.&lt;MakeVoidDelegate&gt;b__3(IAsyncResult ar) at System.Web.Mvc.Async.AsyncResultWrapper.WrappedAsyncResult1.End() at System.Web.Mvc.MvcHandler.EndProcessRequest(IAsyncResult asyncResult) at System.Web.Mvc.MvcHandler.System.Web.IHttpAsyncHandler.EndProcessRequest(IAsyncResult result) at System.Web.HttpApplication.CallHandlerExecutionStep.System.Web.HttpApplication.IExecutionStep.Execute() at System.Web.HttpApplication.ExecuteStep(IExecutionStep step, Boolean& completedSynchronously)`

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  • James Saliba 14 posts 87 karma points
    Jan 16, 2017 @ 23:23
    James Saliba
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    Has anyone figured out a reason for this behaviour? I'm running into the same "Could not find a Surface controller" problem randomly on cache clears (e.g. touching the web.config, or sometimes just editing other files in App_Code folder).

    I'm on v7.5.2 and it's still happening. My custom controllers are just in .cs files in the base of the App_Code folder, sticking them in the Umbraco.Web.Controllers namespace and fully qualifying class names I inherit from... still, randomly run into this problem. And that doesn't inspire confidence!

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  • Kieron McIntyre 117 posts 360 karma points
    Jun 09, 2017 @ 11:20
    Kieron McIntyre
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    Late to the party as always ... but I came across this issue today. I had used a single routes.MapUmbracoRoute() in my routing to target an action on surface controller X and this seemed to be the cause of my issue.

    Using BeginUmbracoForm() wouldn't work for any actions on controller X, even though the actual routes seemed to still be registered - as you have pointed out, you can still use BeginForm(). Once this route was commented out, BeginUmbracoForm() started to work again.

    Is this a bug with BeginUmbracoForm()? Or is it by design ...

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  • Simon Justesen 74 posts 193 karma points
    Jun 09, 2017 @ 12:24
    Simon Justesen
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    Matthew: Are you placing your SurfaceController in the App_Code directory? Remember to make it belong to a namespace e.g.:

    namespace YourNamespace.App_Code {

public class ShopSurfaceController : SurfaceController {
... etc...
}

}

    I've had similar problems until I tried that. It doesn't seem like its documented anywhere.

    Edit: Ouch, realized it's an old post.. The above-mentioned fix is still valid, though

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  • Matthew Kirschner 323 posts 611 karma points
    Jun 09, 2017 @ 12:54
    Matthew Kirschner
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    I don't quite recall what my solution was here but I think it had something to do with switching to a Visual Studio Project instead of a VS Website. Looking at my working code now, it's exactly the same as what I had in my original post and the only things that have changed are project setup and Umbraco versions.

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