Passing viewModel when redirecting in ASP.NET MVC 4 - asp.net-mvc-4

Question

I have below statement:
return Redirect(this.Request.UrlReferrer.AbsolutePath);
this redirects to the caller view. It is working ok, but now I need to return a view model when redirecting, something like this (it's wrong):
return Redirect(this.Request.UrlReferrer.AbsolutePath(item));
So how can I achieve this?
I want to do this because I have a jqrid in which one of its columns offers some actions, edit and delete the row. So if user clicks on edit, i retrieve some data from the id passed to the database. Then once I get this data, I populate a view model in order to update some textboxes in the view, so I need to pass the view model when redirecting.
Below my code in the controller:
public ActionResult Edit(int id)
{
ItemViewModel item = new ItemViewModel();
using (DBContext context = new DBContext())
{
Items itemToModify = context.Items.Single(i=> i.ItemId == id);
item.Desc = itemToModify.Desc;
item.Name = itemToModify.Name;
}
return Redirect(this.Request.UrlReferrer.AbsolutePath, item); <-- how to do this
}

Answer 1

You can use TempData like
In your controller
public ActionResult Action1()
{
ItemViewModel item = new ItemViewModel();
TempData["item"] = item;
return Redirect("Action2");
}
public ActionResult Action2()
{
ItemViewModel item = (ItemViewModel)TempData["item"];
//Your Code
}