Post form receiving a model in MVC3 - asp.net-mvc

Question

I have the following model:
public class Person
{
public int ID{get;set;}
public string Name {get;set;}
public string Address{get;set;}
}
For other hand i have the following view called Index:
#model List<Person>
#{
foreach(Person person in Model)
{
#person.Name
}
}
Finally i have the following action:
public ActionResult Index()
{
List<Person> persons=new List<Person>();
persons.Add(new Person(){ID=1,Name="John"});
persons.Add(new Person(){ID=2,Name="Tom"});
persons.Add(new Person(){ID=2,Name="Derek"});
}
Im thinking to create a form (since i cannot use ajax for this app due to some requirements), to post an instance of the person chosen by the user (when clicks an anchor of my view). I would like to know how i could post a Person instance to another action described below (since my view is typed to a generic list of persons).
[HttpPost]
public ActionResult Index(Person person)
{
... Do whatever
}

Answer 1

Solution with POST:
in order to work it with POST you will have to palce a form and plant hidden fields like
#model List<Person>
#{
foreach(Person person in Model)
{
<form action="/controller/actionresult">
<input type="submit" value=person.Name />
<input type="hidden" name="ID" value="#person.ID"
<input type="hidden" name="Name" value="#person.Name"
</form>
}
}
and on the server side
[HttpPost]
public ActionResult Index(Person person)
{
... Do whatever
}
Solution with GET:
a tags normally dont work with POST there default behaviour is to request the server for a resource via GET although you can override this behaviour using javascript but in your case that is not an option therefore you can try
#model List<Person>
#{
foreach(Person person in Model)
{
#Html.ActionLink(persno.Name,"Index","home",new{ID=person.ID,Name=person.Name,null);
}
}
the only drawback is you will have to use a submit button instead of a tags, you can use css styling to style the button like an a tag. also if you have not set custom routes for this kind of request the uri will have query string params like
http://yourdomain/home/index?ID=1&Name=john

Answer 2

You're approaching it from the wrong angle. As you're not presenting any way to edit a Person you should just pass it by reference (i.e. the PersonId).
So just use a straight-forward link:
// View:
Html.ActionLink( person.Name, "ViewPerson", new { personId = person.ID } );
// Controller action:
public ActionResult ViewPerson(String personId) {
Person person = GetPersonFromDatabase( personId );
}