Dynamic Menu Layout in ASP.NET

Question

I am trying to create a dynamic menu layout in ASP.NET MVC 4. What I did is in my shared view I have the following call

@{ Html.RenderAction("Index", "FooterMenu"); }

I have a controller, and a view for my FooterMenu. It also have a model. Now i try to call it however I keep getting this error

System.StackOverflowException was unhandled

Its keep pointing to my index

public ActionResult Index()
{
  return View(db.FooterMenus.ToList());
}

It also say make sure i am not in an infinite loop, or recursion. But my code is fairly simple

StanK · Accepted Answer · 2013-07-24 21:53:06Z

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I would suspect that you want to return a PartialView - so that the menu doesn't also render the layout, which renders the menu, which renders the layout, which renders the menu...etc

public ActionResult Index()
{
  return PartialView(db.FooterMenus.ToList());
}

answered Jul 24, 2013 at 21:53

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Andy T · Accepted Answer · 2013-07-24 21:42:48Z

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I believe you are caught in a recursive loop. My guess is that the Index view in FooterMenu is using the shared view, which itself is calling @{ Html.RenderAction("Index", "FooterMenu"); }

answered Jul 24, 2013 at 21:42

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Jseb Over a year ago

Oh, wow okay that make sense, how can i have a partial in shared folder, with data from the table? then

glautrou Over a year ago

Return a PartialView instead of a View. The View creates a loop as spotted by Queti Mporta but the PartialView will only returns your menu (without layout which calls the menu another time)

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