I'm developing a web site in ASP.NET MVC that uses jquery to control some plugins like spinner, toastr and others. My question is if I should call Action via jquery to validate the model and within Action make a call rest (which was built in api web ) and return the response in the javascript function.
As I worked a lot with mobile, most of the calls were made on the client, and in this case I see that the call is being made inside the controller , in this case, on the server.
My question is whether to call Action via jquery to validate the model and Action make a call rest (which was built in web api) and return the response in the javascript function.
Web API is a great place to do this, but it's good to make sure that the request header explicitly requests a JSON:
$.ajax({
dataType: ($.browser.msie) ? "text" : "json",
accepts: {
text: "application/json"
},
...
});
It can be done in ASP.NET MVC too, but do not use ActionResult to declare Action . Use:
public JsonResult MinhaAction() { ... }