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);
}
}
private static void Stub(FileSystemInfo source, FileSystemInfo destination)
{
if (source.FullName.EndsWith(".spark"))
{
// At this time the destination is already copied and processed by
// 'simple' text substitution, so destination should be processed.
var settings = new SparkSettings();
settings.AddNamespace("System");
var engine = new SparkViewEngine(settings) {DefaultPageBaseType = typeof(Template).FullName};
var folder = new InMemoryViewFolder {{source.Name, File.ReadAllText(destination.FullName)}};
engine.ViewFolder = folder;
var descriptor = new SparkViewDescriptor();
descriptor.AddTemplate(source.Name);
var view = (Template) engine.CreateInstance(descriptor);
var builder = new StringBuilder();
using (var output = new StringWriter(builder))
{
view.RenderView(output);
File.WriteAllText(destination.FullName, output.ToString());
}
engine.ReleaseInstance(view);
}
else if (source.FullName.EndsWith(".tt"))
{
var generator = new TemplateGenerator();
if (!generator.ProcessTemplate(source.FullName, destination.FullName))
{
var exception = new TemplateException(source.FullName);
foreach (CompilerError error in generator.Errors)
{
exception.AddError(error.ErrorText);
}
throw exception;
}
}
}
