I think is a bug in MVC. I struggled with this issue for hours today.
Given this:
public ViewResult SomeAction(SomeModel model)
{
model.SomeString = "some value";
return View(model);
}
The view renders with the original model, ignoring the changes. So I thought, maybe it does not like me using the same model, so I tried like this:
public ViewResult SomeAction(SomeModel model)
{
var newModel = new SomeModel { SomeString = "some value" };
return View(newModel);
}
And still the view renders with the original model. What’s odd is, when I put a breakpoint in the view and examine the model, it has the changed value. But the response stream has the old values.
Eventually I discovered the same work around that you did:
public ViewResult SomeAction(SomeModel model)
{
var newModel = new SomeModel { SomeString = "some value" };
ModelState.Clear();
return View(newModel);
}
Works as expected.
I don’t think this is a “feature,” is it?