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Jonathan
Jonathan

Reputation: 2358

Retrieve URL for Action from Controller

I am calling a Controller Action from a view, within that controller I need to invoke another Action which I will invoke to save the view to a network location as either HTML or Image.

How do I retrieve the URL to an Action from within a Controller. Please note I need the actual URL, this means RedirectionToAction or View() wont work.

Why? I need to pass in a URL which will contain a call to a View. This view will be used to generate an image or HTML document using the System.Windows.Forms.WebBrowser.

.NET 3.5; C#; MVC 1;

I could do something like this, but its dirty ... well it leaves me with that dirty feeling.

using(Html.BeginForm("Action", "MyWorkflowController", 
new {
   MyId = "bla",
   URLToGenerateImage = Url.Action("GenerateImage", "MyWorkflowController")   
}))

Upvotes: 3

Views: 545

Answers (2)

Jonathan
Jonathan

Reputation: 2358

I ended up using the MvcContrib.UI.BlockRenderer to convert to View to Html instead of generating the image. I proceeded to save the html string to a file system location.

Here is a link for further information

http://www.brightmix.com/blog/how-to-renderpartial-to-string-in-asp-net-mvc/

Upvotes: 1

Dean Gifford
Dean Gifford

Reputation: 1

How about ContentResult - Represents a text result, so you could have

/Controller/GetUrl/id

Public ActionResult GetUrl(int id)
{  
   // builds url to view (Controller/Image/id || Controller/Html/id)
   var url = BuildImageUrl(id);
   return ContentResult(url);
}

in view you could have:

<a href="<% Html.RenderAction("GetUrl", "Controller", new { id = idSource } ); %>">GenerateImage</a>

Upvotes: 0

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