I am in the process of migrating my existing MVC5 application to asp. net core hosted in asphostportal. In the app, I use grids in many Views, so I had implemented the Grid functionality as a child Action:
In the Views/Shared folder, I had my Grid. cshtml
In the Controllers folder, I had my GridController. cs

To show a grid, in the View I added:




The grid had async loading and paging, so in the GridController, I had:



and





So, moving to asp. net core, goodbye child Actions, hello ViewComponents. I have successfully created the ViewComponent class and the view and I am able to show the initial state of the Grid in the hosting View page. Still, I need to find a way to call the Read method and load data into my Grid. . .

Alas! As I found out after a lot of googling:

"A view component never directly handles an HTTP request so you can’t call directly to a view component from the client side. You will need to wrap the view component with a controller if your application requires this behaviour. "


So, should I create a GridController. cs as well? Is this the best way to go, or there exists some other way / best practice?

Thanks in advance whoever takes the time to respond.


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