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    <p>I have an object from a database that is used in a lot of places in my application.</p> <p>The actual precise object is a bit complicated to build, and, especially during development, I have changed it several times. For this reason, I extracted the method out of the Controller and built a method that has a return type of the object.</p> <p>However, it was possible that this object did not exist, and if it did not, my code would create it and return it.</p> <p>For example:</p> <pre><code>public ActionResult Index() { var model = GetTheObject(); return View(model); } public MyComplicatedObject GetTheObject() { MyComplicatedObject passback = ...database query.... if(passback==null) create the object here.... return passback; } </code></pre> <p>However, I no longer want to create a default object. If it does not exist, I want the user to be sent to a view to create a new one.</p> <p>I don't know if it is because I am coding at almost 4AM, or if I am just not that good, but, a neat way of doing this is escaping me.</p> <p>I know the following won't work, but ideally this is what I want:</p> <pre><code>public MyComplicatedObject GetTheObject() { MyComplicatedObject passback = ...database query.... if(passback==null) return View("CreateObject"); return passback; } </code></pre> <p>Obviously though, this will not work.</p> <p>The best solution I can think of is to basically return either null or an exception, then have <code>if(passback==null)</code>&amp;<code>return View("CreateObject");</code> (in case of a null) on the ActionResult.</p> <p>However, as I want to repeat this in a few places, it makes more sense to be able to just have <code>GetTheObject()</code> in one line/call from the ActionResult and nothing else.</p> <p>Is there any way to achieve this?</p>
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