/// <summary>
/// Implements the IRazorPdfRenderer interface and delegate the specific logic to the abstract
/// methods to simplify the implementations of all inheriting Razor View Renderer implementations.
/// NOTE: This method orchestrates all logic to create the view model, execute the view template,
/// and render the XSL-FO output, and then convert that XSL-FO output to a valid Pdf
/// in one and only place and greatly simplifies all Razor View Renderer implementations to keep
/// code very DRY.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="templateModel"></param>
/// <returns></returns>
public virtual byte[] RenderPdf(MovieSearchResponse templateModel)
{
//***********************************************************
//Execute the XSLT Transform to generate the XSL-FO output
//***********************************************************
//Render the XSL-FO output from the Razor Template and the View Model
var xslFODoc = this.RenderXslFOXml(templateModel);
//Create the Pdf Options for the XSL-FO Rendering engine to use
var pdfOptions = new XslFOPdfOptions()
{
Author = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly()?.GetName()?.Name ?? "PdfTemplating Renderer",
Title = $"Xsl-FO Pdf Templating Renderer [{this.GetType().Name}]",
Subject = $"Dynamic Xslt Generated Xsl-FO Pdf Document [{DateTime.Now}]",
//SET the Base Directory for XslFO Images, Xslt Imports, etc.
BaseDirectory = this.XsltFileInfo.Directory,
EnableAdd = false,
EnableCopy = true,
EnableModify = false,
EnablePrinting = true,
};
//****************************************************************************
//Execute the Transformation of the XSL-FO source to Binary Pdf via Fonet
//****************************************************************************
var xslFOPdfRenderer = new FONetXslFOPdfRenderer(xslFODoc, pdfOptions);
var pdfBytes = xslFOPdfRenderer.RenderPdfBytes();
return(pdfBytes);
}
/// <summary>
/// Implements the IRazorPdfRenderer interface and delegate the specific logic to the abstract
/// methods to simplify the implementations of all inheriting Razor View Renderers.
/// NOTE: This method orchestrates all logic to create the view model, execute the view template,
/// and render the XSL-FO output, and then convert that XSL-FO output to a valid Pdf
/// in one and only place and greatly simplifies all Razor View Renderers to keep
/// code very DRY.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="templateModel"></param>
/// <returns></returns>
public virtual byte[] RenderPdf(MovieSearchResponse templateModel)
{
//***********************************************************
//Execute the Razor View to generate the XSL-FO output
//***********************************************************
var razorViewRenderer = new MvcRazorViewRenderer(this.ControllerContext);
var renderResult = razorViewRenderer.RenderView(this.RazorViewVirtualPath, templateModel);
//Load the XSL-FO output into a fully validated XDocument.
//NOTE: This template must generate valid Xsl-FO output -- via the well-formed xml we load into the XDocument return value -- to be rendered as a Pdf Binary!
var xslFODoc = XDocument.Parse(renderResult.RenderOutput);
//Create the Pdf Options for the XSL-FO Rendering engine to use
var pdfOptions = new XslFOPdfOptions()
{
Author = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly()?.GetName()?.Name ?? "PdfTemplating Renderer",
Title = $"Xsl-FO Pdf Templating Renderer [{this.GetType().Name}]",
Subject = $"Dynamic Razor Template Generated Xsl-FO Pdf Document [{DateTime.Now}]",
//SET the Base Directory for XslFO Images, Xslt Imports, etc.
//BaseDirectory = this.RazorViewFileInfo.Directory,
BaseDirectory = this.RazorViewFileInfo.Directory,
EnableAdd = false,
EnableCopy = true,
EnableModify = false,
EnablePrinting = true,
};
//****************************************************************************
//Execute the Transformation of the XSL-FO source to Binary Pdf via Fonet
//****************************************************************************
var xslFOPdfRenderer = new FONetXslFOPdfRenderer(xslFODoc, pdfOptions);
var pdfBytes = xslFOPdfRenderer.RenderPdfBytes();
return(pdfBytes);
}
/// <summary>
/// Helper method to convert the XSL-FO into a valid Pdf
/// </summary>
/// <param name="xslFODoc"></param>
/// <param name="xslFOPdfOptions"></param>
/// <returns></returns>
protected virtual byte[] RenderXslFOPdfBytes(XDocument xslFODoc, XslFOPdfOptions xslFOPdfOptions)
{
//***********************************************************
//Render the Xsl-FO results into a Pdf binary output
//***********************************************************
var xslFOPdfRenderer = new FONetXslFOPdfRenderer(xslFODoc, xslFOPdfOptions);
var pdfBytes = xslFOPdfRenderer.RenderPdfBytes();
return(pdfBytes);
}