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ActionResult for ASP.NET MVC that returns a CSV file from any list of objects
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using System; | |
using System.Collections.Generic; | |
using System.Data; | |
using System.IO; | |
using System.Reflection; | |
using System.Text; | |
using System.Web; | |
using System.Web.Mvc; | |
namespace webnetconf.website.Helpers | |
{ | |
public class CsvActionResult<T> : FileResult | |
{ | |
private readonly IList<T> _list; | |
private readonly char _separator; | |
public CsvActionResult(IList<T> list, | |
string fileDownloadName, | |
char separator=',') | |
: base("text/csv") | |
{ | |
_list = list; | |
FileDownloadName = fileDownloadName; | |
_separator = separator; | |
} | |
protected override void WriteFile(HttpResponseBase response) | |
{ | |
var outputStream = response.OutputStream; | |
using (var memoryStream = new MemoryStream()) | |
{ | |
WriteList(memoryStream); | |
outputStream.Write(memoryStream.GetBuffer(), 0, (int)memoryStream.Length); | |
} | |
} | |
private void WriteList(Stream stream) | |
{ | |
var streamWriter = new StreamWriter(stream, Encoding.Default); | |
WriteHeaderLine(streamWriter); | |
streamWriter.WriteLine(); | |
WriteDataLines(streamWriter); | |
streamWriter.Flush(); | |
} | |
private void WriteHeaderLine(StreamWriter streamWriter) | |
{ | |
foreach (MemberInfo member in typeof(T).GetProperties()) | |
{ | |
WriteValue(streamWriter, member.Name); | |
} | |
} | |
private void WriteDataLines(StreamWriter streamWriter) | |
{ | |
foreach (T line in _list) | |
{ | |
foreach (MemberInfo member in typeof(T).GetProperties()) | |
{ | |
WriteValue(streamWriter, GetPropertyValue(line, member.Name)); | |
} | |
streamWriter.WriteLine(); | |
} | |
} | |
private void WriteValue(StreamWriter writer, String value) | |
{ | |
writer.Write("\""); | |
writer.Write(value.Replace("\"", "\"\"")); | |
writer.Write("\"" + _separator); | |
} | |
public static string GetPropertyValue(object src, string propName) | |
{ | |
return src.GetType().GetProperty(propName).GetValue(src, null).ToString()??""; | |
} | |
} | |
} |
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