ServiceStack Razor - Html.RenderAction equivalent

Question

I have the requirement to use Html.RenderAction like you would in ASP.NET MVC.

For instance I have a Home Page with News and Products on.

I would like to do for instance

@Html.RenderAction("/api/products/featured")

Which would start a new service call and output the template to the html stream.

Is this possible using ServiceStack Razor and if so how do I accomplish it?

If you able to get the featured products in the 'Parent' View you could try something like @Html.RenderPage("FeatureProducts.cshtml", FeaturedProductsModel) — paaschpa
I realise that however the whole purpose of using RenderAction is so you remove the dependency on however the products are retrived. — James

mythz mythz · Accepted Answer · 2014-11-09T01:01:25

The PartialExamples.cshtml test page shows different examples of rendering a razor view inside a page, e.g:

Using the new RenderToAction() method which lets you execute a Service and it's rendered partial view with a route and QueryString, e.g:

@Html.RenderAction("/products/1")

This also takes an optional view name if you want a different view than the default:

@Html.RenderAction("/products/1", "CustomProductView")

There's also the normal Html.Partial() to specify which view and model you want to render in the page, e.g:

@Html.Partial("GetProduct", 
    base.ExecuteService<ProductService>(s => s.Any(new GetProduct { Id = 1 })))

ExecuteService is simply a wrapper around the equivalent ResolveService in a using statement, i.e:

@{
   Response response = null;
   using (var service = base.ResolveService<ProductService>())
   {
       response = service.Any(new GetProduct { Id = 1 });
   }
}
@Html.Partial("GetProduct", response)

The new RenderToAction() method in Razor Views was added in v4.0.34+ which is now available on MyGet.

ServiceStack Razor - Html.RenderAction equivalent

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