excluding child action of a child action failes

[mahdi87gh]

Hi
I have a child action for creating my footer which loads data from database. And I am loading it like this in my Layout.chtml

@Html.Action("CreateFooter", "Home", true)

In CreateFooter action I call another child action for displaying page visit status which shouldn't be cached and needs to display fresh data. So in my CreateFooter.chtml

@Html.Action("GetStatus", "VisitCounter", new { Address = "PV-Home -> Index" },true)

But things in my footer gets messed up. some part of footer which is right after this line of code, repeats before whole footer!! If i change it to this line

@Html.Action("GetStatus", "VisitCounter", new { Address = "PV-Home -> Index" })

Nothing gets messed up but the visit status data wo'nt be fresh anymore.

In Home controller , CreateFooter has dounut attribute
In VisitCounter controller , GetStatus has'nt dounut attribute

Please kindly help me.

[moonpyk]

Can you provide me a simple MVC demonstrating the issue ?

[mahdi87gh]

ok here is one example
if you take a good look, in footer we should have two lines of "some other information about copyrights" but in second page load which is when the page is cached, we have 4 lines.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3YNJ8ZQzEClY3pmekxMeUVnN28/view?usp=sharing

[mahdi87gh]

And I found out the second child action gets called just once! which should display fresh data everytime but it won't.
Thanks

[migig]

Are you doing any of this in an actionfilter?

If so, I had a similar problem and discovered it's because the actionfilter was being called twice, if it is on an action which calls a child action. You can avoid that by checking filterContext.IsChildAction.

[mahdi87gh]

Thanks man,
But no I'm not. If you download the sample project you'll see.

[migig]

@mahdi87gh From your description it sounds like what I posted is correct. You need to somehow check for IsChildAction, and return if that is the case, else you will get two calls to the child action. See here.

[mahdi87gh]

Dear @migig As I mentioned before, I'm not getting two calls at all, and I'm not using any action filter. You can see it for yourself in the sample project.
Thanks anyway

[migig]

@mahdi87gh Your post implied that you are getting two calls, because you said that the markup is repeated. Maybe put a breakpoint in the innermost child action and double check?

[mahdi87gh]

@migig I did that (putting breakpoints on every action) before and NO I'm not getting two calls!!! and markup is repeated that's why I posted here!

[migig]

That's weird... 😦 Try StackOverflow....

[migig]

@mahdi87gh See this

[mahdi87gh]

@migig Thanks
I did what i had to. I put database driven markup inside CreateFooter action and other markup to _layout.chtml

[migig]

Cool 😎