ASP.NET MVC NonAction meaning

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Can anybody please tell me why should I use the NonAction attribute? I mean say I have a form with several submit values: Update, Delete or Insert. Since all the submit buttons have the same form in common I'm switching the submit value inside the controller and act accordingly.

Like this:

public ActionResult asd(string submitButton){
     switch(submitButton){
         case "Insert":
             return Insert();
         // bla bla bla
     }
}

[NonAction]
public ActionResult Insert(){
    // some code inside here
    return View();
}

Once again, why should I use NonAction instead of something like this:

public void Insert(){
    // some code inside here
}
actionmethod asp.net-mvc asp.net c#
9 Answers

I just used [NonAction] in our web api, to decorate a bunch of Controller Methods (endpoints) because we had a last minute decision that we will postpone the delivery of the specific endpoints.

So it is useful, if you want to avoid exposing an API endpoint, but still want to keep the implementation for later.

So I used this attribute and it saved me a lot of time.

I will just remove it in the next release and this will simply be there!

user_42952340

This is indicate that a controller method is not an action method.Example: [NonAction] public void IndexTest() { // Do some thing } this is very useful attribute when visibility of controller 's method cannot be changed to private.

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