PosInformatique.Foundations.Text.Templating.Razor 1.1.0

PosInformatique.Foundations.Text.Templating.Razor

Introduction

This package provides a simple way to generate text from Razor components (views) outside of ASP.NET Core MVC/Blazor pages. It is an implementation of the core PosInformatique.Foundations.Text.Templating library.

You define a Razor component with a Model parameter, and the library renders it to a TextWriter by using a RazorTextTemplate<TModel> implementation. The Razor component can also inject any service registered in the application IServiceCollection.

Install

You can install the package from NuGet:

dotnet add package PosInformatique.Foundations.Text.Templating.Razor

Features

• Render text from Razor components (Blazor-style components)
• Strongly-typed model passed via a Model parameter
• Integrates with dependency injection (IServiceCollection / IServiceProvider)
• Ability to inject any registered service directly in the Razor component with @inject
• Simple registration via AddRazorTextTemplating(IServiceCollection)

Basic usage

1. Register the Razor text templating

You must register the Razor text templating rendering infrastructure in your DI container:

var services = new ServiceCollection();

// Register application services
services.AddLogging();

// Register Razor text templating
services.AddRazorTextTemplating();

// Build the service provider used as context
var serviceProvider = services.BuildServiceProvider();

2. Create a Razor component (view)

Create a Razor component that will be used as a template, for example HelloTemplate.razor:

@using System
@using Microsoft.Extensions.Logging

@inherits ComponentBase

@code {
    // The model automatically injected by RazorTextTemplate<TModel>
    [Parameter]
    public MyEmailModel? Model { get; set; }

    protected override void OnInitialized()
    {
        // You can use Blazor event as usual (OnInitialized, OnParametersSet, etc.)
        this.Model.Now = DateTime.UtcNow;
    }
}

Hello this.Model.UserName !
Today is this.Model.Now:U

Key points:

• The model is received via a Model parameter (it is automatically set by the library).
• You can inject any service registered in IServiceCollection using @inject (or [Inject] attribute in code-behind).

3. Use RazorTextTemplate<TModel>.RenderAsync()

You can now create a RazorTextTemplate<TModel> instance, build a rendering context that exposes an IServiceProvider, and call RenderAsync():

using System.IO;
using System.Threading;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection;
using PosInformatique.Foundations.Text.Templating;
using PosInformatique.Foundations.Text.Templating.Razor;

// Example of a simple ITextTemplateRenderContext implementation
public class TextTemplateRenderContext : ITextTemplateRenderContext
{
    public TextTemplateRenderContext(IServiceProvider serviceProvider)
    {
        this.ServiceProvider = serviceProvider;
    }

    public IServiceProvider ServiceProvider { get; }
}

public static class RazorTemplateSample
{
    public static async Task GenerateAsync()
    {
        var services = new ServiceCollection();
        services.AddRazorTextTemplating();

        var serviceProvider = services.BuildServiceProvider();

        // Create the Razor text template that uses the HelloTemplate component
        var template = new RazorTextTemplate<MyEmailModel>(typeof(HelloTemplate));

        // Build the context that provides IServiceProvider
        var context = new TextTemplateRenderContext(serviceProvider);

        using var writer = new StringWriter();

        // Render the template with a string model
        var model = new MyEmailModel { UserName = "John" };
        await template.RenderAsync(model, writer, context, CancellationToken.None);

        var result = writer.ToString();
        Console.WriteLine(result);
    }
}

4. Injecting other services in the Razor view

Any service registered in your IServiceCollection and available through IServiceProvider can be injected in the Razor component.

Example:

@using MyApp.Services
@inherits ComponentBase

@code {
    [Parameter]
    public MyEmailModel? Model { get; set; }

    [Inject]
    public IDateTimeProvider DateTimeProvider { get; set; } = default!

    [Inject]
    public IMyFormatter Formatter { get; set; } = default!
}

Hello @Model?.Name,

Current time: @this.DateTimeProvider.UtcNow
Formatted data: @this.Formatter.Format(Model)

As long as IDateTimeProvider and IMyFormatter are registered in the IServiceCollection, they are available during template rendering.

HTML rendering and character encoding

The output of Razor templates is standard HTML. This means that special characters (including accents) are HTML-encoded by default when using expressions like @Model.Name.

If you need to output already-encoded or raw HTML content from your model in a Razor Component (Blazor-style), you must explicitly disable HTML encoding in your Razor template using the MarkupString class, for example:

@((MarkupString)Model.Name)

Use this only when you are sure that the content is safe (to avoid XSS vulnerabilities).

Links

• NuGet package: Emailing.Templates.Razor
• NuGet package: Text.Templating (core library)
• NuGet package: Text.Templating.Razor
• Source code