Styjun

With ServiceStack's Razor Story we have a variety of ways of selecting which Razor View we want to use to render a page. Even better, and critical in my case, is we can pass in a Content-Type header (or query string parameter, or even page "suffix") as well to return the raw model in a variety of formats.

Is there any way to use ServiceStack Templates (now known as SharpScript) to do the same thing? I follow the example here but I just get back the standard HTML format response. It doesn't use my template, no matter how named.

Following the example in the v5.5 Release Notes:

[Route("/hello/Name")]
public class Hello : IReturn<HelloResponse>

 public string Name get; set; 

public class HelloResponse

 public string Result get; set; 


public class HelloService : Service

 public object Any(Hello request) => new HelloResponse Result = $"Hello, request.Name!" ;

Going to /hello/World?format=html provides me the standard HTML report, not my template. I followed another example to force it to use the template ....

public object Any(Hello request) =>
 new PageResult(Request.GetPage("examples/hello")) 
 Model = request.Name
 ;

... and it ALWAYS returns my template, even if I specify /hello/World?format=json.

Is there any way to have Razor-like view selection for ServiceStack + ScriptSharp pages, but also support different response formats?

It's hard to answer a vague question like this without details of a specific scenario you want to achieve that's not working.

You can return Sharp Pages in a number of ways:

• When it's requested directly as a content page, e.g /dir/page -> /dir/page.html
  


• Using Page Based Routing, e.g /dir/1 -> /dir/_id.html
  


• As a View Page in response to a Service when it's named after the Request DTO or Response DTO, e.g /contacts/1 -> /Views/GetContact.html or /Views/GetContactResponse.html
  

Select which view to render inside your Service by returning your Response DTO inside a custom HttpResult:

public object Any(MyRequest request)

 ...
 return new HttpResult(response)
 
 View = "CustomPage", // -> /Views/CustomPage.html
 //Template = "_custom-layout",
 ;

Add the [ClientCanSwapTemplates] Request Filter attribute to let the View and Template by modified on the QueryString, e.g: ?View=CustomPage&Template=_custom-layout

[ClientCanSwapTemplates]
public object Any(MyRequest request) => ...

Choosing which page you want to render inside your Model View Controller Service by returning a custom PageResult:

public class CustomerServices : Service

 public object Any(ViewCustomer request) =>
 new PageResult(Request.GetPage("examples/customer")) 
 Model = TemplateQueryData.GetCustomer(request.Id)
 ;

Note: That the SharpPagesFeature resolves pages using your cascading AppHost.VirtualFileSources. In .NET Core it's configured to use its WebRoot, e.g /wwwroot.

For Sharp Pages to return its Response in Multiple Content Types:

as well to return the raw model in a variety of formats.

You need to use a Sharp APIs which return a value, e.g. /hello/_name/index.html:

 return 

To succinctly answer my own question, the first option from @mythz is what I needed. After calling Plugins.Add(new SharpPagesFeature()) in my AppHost, I needed to return HttpResult from my service method:

public object Any(MyRequest request)

 ...
 return new HttpResult(response)
 
 View = "CustomPage", // -> /Views/CustomPage.html
 //Template = "_custom-layout",
 ;