Make BuildFile work without a controller context

[JustMaier]

I've been using this project for a few years now and more than once I've had to modify it to remove the dependency on ControllerContext so that I could create PDFs in WebAPI and outside of a normal MVC Controller. ControllerContext in most cases was replaceable by HttpContext.Current.

To perform the tests I had to update the demo and the unit tests to MVC 5. After the update all of the tests passed successfully.

[viktor-nikolaev]

Like it, thanks

[2E0PGS]

Great work. A few indenting issues or maybe thats just Github doing that on it's preview of the diffs. Hopefully this gets merged soon as its been sat around a while.

[2E0PGS]

I tried building your branch and it seems to break refences to Mvc framework. The current master of Rotativa works fine however and builds.

See error list:

[2E0PGS]

Never mind those references are broken before your commits. I think I may try cherry picking your changes onto latest stable.

[2E0PGS]

Did this ever actually work for you? I have built a new version with your patches ontop of current master branch of this repo. I havn't pushed the code yet due to login logistics on the machine I need to figureout.

I got a custom DLL compiled for dotnet framework 4.5 and it all works besides when it goes to call foo.BuildPdf(); or foo.BuildFile(); in my controller.

I get a framework error as it gets further down the stack:

"message": "An error has occurred.",
	"exceptionMessage": "Value cannot be null.\r\nParameter name: controllerContext",
	"exceptionType": "System.ArgumentNullException",
	"stackTrace": "   at System.Web.Mvc.ViewEngineCollection.FindView(ControllerContext controllerContext, String viewName, String masterName)\r\n   at Rotativa.ViewAsPdf.GetView(ControllerContext context, String viewName, String masterName)\r\n   at Rotativa.ViewAsPdf.CallTheDriver(ControllerContext context)\r\n   at Rotativa.AsResultBase.BuildFile(ControllerContext context)\r\n   at 

[JustMaier]

@2E0PGS It did work for me years ago when I used this. I haven't used this since mid-2015, so I'm not sure about its current state. Sorry.

[2E0PGS]

Yeah I don't this patch would even work after the amount of debugging I did. I even tried these changes ontop of latest base and it didn't work. Same deeper issues with razer render framework not rotativa. This is probably why rotativa doesn't support Api type base controllers anyway. In the end I made a new class for doing controller context spoofing which allows me to call Rotativa from an ApiController and have it find the correct views when building a PDF from  a Html view. I can share the class if anyone needs it. Cheers, ⁣Peter Stevenson (2E0PGS) http://www.m3pgs.co.uk​

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On 10 Aug 2018, 16:43, at 16:43, Justin Maier ***@***.***> wrote: @2E0PGS It did work for me years ago when I used this. I haven't used this since mid-2015, so I'm not sure about its current state. Sorry. -- You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: #88 (comment)

[jbinder]

@2E0PGS Could you please share the class?

[2E0PGS]

https://gist.github.com/2E0PGS/7ef85843464f29aba8335ae204fa56cd ⁣Sent from BlueMail ​

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On 11 Apr 2019, 10:57, at 10:57, Johannes Binder ***@***.***> wrote: @2E0PGS Could you please share the class? -- You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: #88 (comment)