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Aestek
Aestek

Reputation: 35

Dynamic Razor data source

I am trying to use Razor Engine as a standalone template engine. This is working great except that I don't know which are the properties that will be passed to Razor therefore I can't declare an object listing my vars. I currently do this using a dictionary, allowing me to write things like that :

@Model.Vars["MyProperty"]

But I would like to be able to simply write :

@MyProperty

Is there some way to do this ?

Thanks in advance for your answers.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 227

Answers (1)

Tejs
Tejs

Reputation: 41256

You can use some razor syntax to provide intellisense for your view:

@inherits MyNamespace.MoreNamespace.MyCustomRazorModel<MyModelType>

As long as your MyCustomRazorModel implements the required Write, WriteLiteral etc methods, then everything should work correctly, and you could use the following in your views:

@MyProperty

Assuming you had a definition like so:

public class MyCustomRazorModel<T>
{
    public string MyProperty { get; set; }
}

I mention that your backing Razor implementation should probably be Generic simply so that you can re-use it with whatever model you want for templating. That is also how the Razor engine works in ASP.NET, by providing a Generic model that exposes the model in the @Model property.

EDIT

For example, take a look at the following class to see how the framework guys did it:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg402107(v=vs.108).aspx

This is the backing view for the RazorEngine in ASP.NET. For standalone implementations, you would make a backing type for the view to inherit like this.

Upvotes: 1

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