public static string RenderTemplate(string template, ViewDataDictionary viewData)
{
// Set up your spark engine goodness.
var settings = new SparkSettings().SetPageBaseType(typeof(SparkView));
var engine = new SparkViewEngine(settings)
{
ViewFolder = new FileSystemViewFolder(AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory + @"\..\..\..\IntegrationTestingViews\Views")
};
// "Describe" the view (the template, it is a template after all), and its details.
var descriptor = new SparkViewDescriptor().AddTemplate(template);
// Create a spark view engine instance
var view = (SparkView)engine.CreateInstance(descriptor);
try
{
// Merge the view data.
viewData.Keys.ToList().ForEach(x => view.ViewData[x] = viewData[x]);
// Render the view to a text writer.
var writer = new StringWriter();
view.RenderView(writer);
return(writer.ToString());
}
finally
{
engine.ReleaseInstance(view);
}
}
public string Convert(string templateName, ViewData data, string relativeOutputPath)
{
string template = templateName;
if (template.StartsWith(templatePath))
{
template = template.Substring(templatePath.Length + 1);
}
SparkViewDescriptor descriptor = new SparkViewDescriptor()
.AddTemplate(template);
var view = (SparkTemplateBase)engine.CreateInstance(descriptor);
using (var writer = new StringWriter())
{
try
{
view.RelativeOutputPath = relativeOutputPath;
view.ViewData = data;
view.RenderView(writer);
}
finally
{
engine.ReleaseInstance(view);
}
return(writer.ToString());
}
}
public void Render(Template template, object data, TextWriter output)
{
var descriptor = new SparkViewDescriptor().AddTemplate(template.Name + ".spark");
var view = (ViewBase)_engine.CreateInstance(descriptor);
try
{
view.Data = data;
view.RenderView(output);
}
finally
{
_engine.ReleaseInstance(view);
}
}
public string Populate(string templateFilePath, object data)
{
var writer = new StringWriter();
var descriptor = new SparkViewDescriptor();
descriptor.AddTemplate(templateFilePath);
var view = (TemplateBase)engine.CreateInstance(descriptor);
try {
view.ViewData = new ViewDataDictionary(data);
view.RenderView(writer);
} finally {
engine.ReleaseInstance(view);
}
return(writer.ToString());
}