/// <summary>
/// Renders the specified view using MVC Razor.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="view">The view.</param>
/// <param name="model">The model.</param>
/// <returns>The view content.</returns>
/// <exception cref="System.ArgumentNullException">view</exception>
protected HttpResponseMessage View(string view, object model = null)
{
if (view == null)
{
throw new ArgumentNullException("view");
}
var html = ViewRenderer.RenderView(view, null, fakeController.ControllerContext);
return(new HttpResponseMessage()
{
Content = new StringContent(html, Encoding.UTF8, "text/html")
});
}
/// <summary>
/// Renders a partial MVC view to string. Use this method to render
/// a partial view that doesn't merge with _Layout and doesn't fire
/// _ViewStart.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="viewPath">
/// The path to the view to render. Either in same controller, shared by
/// name or as fully qualified ~/ path including extension
/// </param>
/// <param name="model">The model to pass to the viewRenderer</param>
/// <param name="controllerContext">Active controller context</param>
/// <param name="errorMessage">optional output parameter to receive an error message on failure</param>
/// <returns>String of the rendered view or null on error</returns>
public static string RenderPartialView(string viewPath, object model,
ControllerContext controllerContext,
out string errorMessage)
{
errorMessage = null;
try
{
var renderer = new ViewRenderer(controllerContext);
return(renderer.RenderPartialView(viewPath, model));
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
errorMessage = ex.GetBaseException().Message;
}
return(null);
}
/// <summary>
/// Initializes a new instance of the <see cref="CustomApiControllerBase"/> class.
/// </summary>
protected CustomApiControllerBase()
{
fakeController = ViewRenderer.CreateController <ViewRenderer.FakeController>();
}
