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Asp.net Core service to read Rendered Razor View as string
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public class DocumentsController | |
{ | |
private readonly IViewRenderService _viewRenderService; | |
// Dependency Injection is happening here | |
public DocumentsController(IViewRenderService viewRenderService) | |
{ | |
_viewRenderService = viewRenderService; | |
} | |
// .... Methods and more Methods | |
[HttpGet("generate")] | |
[AllowAnonymous] | |
public async Task<IActionResult> Generate() | |
{ | |
try | |
{ | |
// ... | |
string result = await _viewRenderService.RenderToStringAsync("SignatureEvents", usersModel); | |
// ... Results | |
} | |
catch (Exception e) | |
{ | |
throw e; | |
} | |
} | |
} |
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public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services) | |
{ | |
// ... | |
// Adding the service in startup.cs, we add the capability to add this class as Dependency Injection | |
services.AddScoped<IViewRenderService, ViewRenderService>(); | |
// ... | |
} |
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public interface IViewRenderService | |
{ | |
Task<string> RenderToStringAsync(string viewName, object model); | |
} | |
public class ViewRenderService : IViewRenderService | |
{ | |
private readonly IRazorViewEngine _razorViewEngine; | |
private readonly ITempDataProvider _tempDataProvider; | |
private readonly IServiceProvider _serviceProvider; | |
public ViewRenderService(IRazorViewEngine razorViewEngine, | |
ITempDataProvider tempDataProvider, | |
IServiceProvider serviceProvider) | |
{ | |
_razorViewEngine = razorViewEngine; | |
_tempDataProvider = tempDataProvider; | |
_serviceProvider = serviceProvider; | |
} | |
public async Task<string> RenderToStringAsync(string viewName, object model) | |
{ | |
var httpContext = new DefaultHttpContext { RequestServices = _serviceProvider }; | |
var actionContext = new ActionContext(httpContext, new RouteData(), new ActionDescriptor()); | |
using (var sw = new StringWriter()) | |
{ | |
var viewResult = _razorViewEngine.FindView(actionContext, viewName, false); | |
if (viewResult.View == null) | |
{ | |
throw new ArgumentNullException($"{viewName} does not match any available view"); | |
} | |
var viewDictionary = new ViewDataDictionary(new EmptyModelMetadataProvider(), new ModelStateDictionary()) | |
{ | |
Model = model | |
}; | |
var viewContext = new ViewContext( | |
actionContext, | |
viewResult.View, | |
viewDictionary, | |
new TempDataDictionary(actionContext.HttpContext, _tempDataProvider), | |
sw, | |
new HtmlHelperOptions() | |
); | |
await viewResult.View.RenderAsync(viewContext); | |
return sw.ToString(); | |
} | |
} | |
} |
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