Send Jquery UI Dialog value to Url.Action - jquery-ui

Question

Not sure how to pass along a bool to my (working) C# method DeleteTestuser. I've Googled the heck out of this but mileage varies with all kinds of pitfalls, i.e. old information, bad syntax.
Rather than passing confirm as false, below, I need to return a bool if the user confirms the action. Thanks...
index.cshtml
<a href="#Url.Action("DeleteTestUser", "Home",
new {id = testUser.TestUserId, confirm = false})"
id="confirm-delete">
_layout.cshtml
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function () {
$('#dialog-modal').dialog(
{
title: 'Test User',
draggable: false,
resizeable: false,
closeOnEscape: true,
modal: true,
autoOpen: false,
buttons: {
'Yes': function () {
$(this).dialog('close');
confirmResult(true);
},
'No': function () {
$(this).dialog('close');
confirmResult(false);
}
}
});
$('#confirm-delete').click(function () {
$('#dialog-modal').dialog("open");
});
function confirmResult(result) { return result }
});
</script>

Answer 1

Basically, you're recreating your own confirm() with jQuery UI Dialog. I did this and here is a similar case: confirm form submit with jquery UI
Apply this to your scenario and you have something like:
$(function() {
function ui_confirm(message, callback) {
var dfd = $.Deferred();
var dialog = $("<div>", {
id: "confirm"
})
.html(message)
.appendTo($("body"))
.data("selection", false)
.dialog({
autoOpen: false,
resizable: false,
title: 'Confirm',
zIndex: 99999999,
modal: true,
buttons: [{
text: "Yes",
click: function() {
$(this).dialog("close");
dfd.resolve(true);
if ($.isFunction(callback)) {
callback.apply();
}
}
}, {
text: "No",
click: function() {
$(this).dialog("close");
dfd.resolve(false);
}
}],
close: function(event, ui) {
$('#confirm').remove();
}
});
dialog.dialog("open");
return dfd.promise();
}
function deleteUser(id){
// Code you will execute to delete a user or POST back.
}
$(".button").button();
$('.del').click(function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
// your code
$.when(ui_confirm("Are you sure?")).done(function(val) {
if (val) {
console.log("Delete User Confirmed.");
deleteUser($(this).attr("id"));
} else {
console.log("Do not delete user.");
}
});
});
});
<link rel="stylesheet" href="//code.jquery.com/ui/1.12.1/themes/base/jquery-ui.css">
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.12.4.js"></script>
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/ui/1.12.1/jquery-ui.js"></script>
John Smith Delete
You may be able to get away with just executing specific callbacks. That's up to you. This code can then also be used to pass along another function or to use with a prompt() like dialog.
Update
See: Using Url.Action in javascript
For example:
function deleteTestUser(uid, conf){
var url = '#Url.Action("DeleteTestUser", "Home", new {id=' + uid + ', confirm=' + conf + '})';
$.get(url, function(data){
console.log("User " + uid + " Deleted.");
});
}
I would use POST if possible.
function deleteTestUser(uid, conf){
$.post('#Url.Action("DeleteTestUser", "Home")', { id: uid, confirm: conf }, function(data){
console.log("User " + uid + " Deleted.");
});
}