Can you overload controller methods in ASP.NET MVC?

c# asp.net-mvc overloading
Papa Burgundy picture Papa Burgundy · Jan 12, 2009 · Viewed 164.8k times · Source

I'm curious to see if you can overload controller methods in ASP.NET MVC. Whenever I try, I get the error below. The two methods accept different arguments. Is this something that cannot be done?

The current request for action 'MyMethod' on controller type 'MyController' is ambiguous between the following action methods:

Answer

JD Conley picture JD Conley · Jan 12, 2009

You can use the attribute if you want your code to do overloading.

[ActionName("MyOverloadedName")]

But, you'll have to use a different action name for the same http method (as others have said). So it's just semantics at that point. Would you rather have the name in your code or your attribute?

Phil has an article related to this: http://haacked.com/archive/2008/08/29/how-a-method-becomes-an-action.aspx

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