ASP.Net MVC - Need to send other data along with Partial View

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I need to send some other data, ideally wrapped in a JSON object, down to the client. As well as that however I need to send a Partial view. Now I can only think of two ways:

Send JSON object and then make another call to load contents of partial view into div.
Send HTML for Partial View as a property of the JSON object and then load it into div.

How would I go about doing the second option? Is there a command to render partial views into a string? Or is the first approach better?

Cheers, Damien

see stackoverflow.com/questions/1471066/…

Tim Abell
– Tim Abell

2011-08-03 12:56:17 +00:00
Commented Aug 3, 2011 at 12:56 — Tim Abell
– Tim Abell, Commented Aug 3, 2011 at 12:56

Buu · Accepted Answer · 2010-05-19 16:43:38Z

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Is there a command to render partial views into a string

No direct way as I know of. But it's possible with some mocking. I use Moq here, but any mocking framework would do.

var writer = new StringWriter();
var context = new Mock<HttpContextBase>();
var response = new Mock<HttpResponseBase>();
context.Setup(ctx => ctx.Response).Returns(response.Object);
response.Setup(res => res.Output).Returns(writer);

var oldContext = ControllerContext.HttpContext;
ControllerContext.HttpContext = context.Object;

var partialView = PartialView("TagCloud", tags);
partialView.ExecuteResult(ControllerContext);
var resultHtml = writer.ToString();

ControllerContext.HttpContext = oldContext;

answered May 19, 2010 at 16:43

Buu

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