taking advantage of inheritance in Controllers and Views

Question

I had posted this review on codereview.stackexchange.com a while ago... I feel it may be more suitable for stackoverflow, since it is more of a question than a code review.

Answer 1

Forgive me if I've misunderstood but provided you added a genric UOW it seems to me you could do something like this: I don't see why it would be bad to do this

public class AdBaseController : ControllerBase
{
    private IUnitOfWork _unitOfWork;

    public AdBaseController(IUnitOfWork unitOfWork)
    {
        _unitOfWork = unitOfWork;
    }

    public ActionResult GetDisplayAction(long id)
    {
        SimpleAd simpleAd = _unitOfWork.GenericAdRepository.Get(id)
        var viewModel = Mapper.Map(simpleAd);         
        return View(viewModel);
    }
}

public class SimpleAdController : ControllerBase
{    
    public SimpleAdController(IUnitOfWork unitOfWork) : base(unitOfWork)
    {
    }

    [HttpGet]
    public ActionResult Display(long id)
    {
        return GetDisplayAction();
    }
}