HtmlHelper<T>

[Chris]

Is there any way of getting an HtmlHelper<T> instance in a spark
view? I'm trying to use some third part extensions that depend on
it. I did find this post (
http://groups.google.com/group/spark-dev/browse_thread/thread/618bd44a94368d22/d6fa365fb2d7392f?show_docid=d6fa365fb2d7392f
) and so downloaded the latest build from the TeamCity install on
codebetter.com but I still can;t seem to find the the strongly typed
helper. Any ideas? If this hasn't actually been done I'm quite happy
to fork on gh and give it a go myself.

[Artem Tikhomirov]

You should create your personal base class for Spark views. Then you should create it's generic derivative having new Html property returning  strongly typed HtmlHelper<T>.

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[Louis DeJardin]

I'm kind of curious also - does <use model="YourModelClass"/> make a difference in that case?

[Erik van Brakel]

This is the exact same problem I'm having right now. AFAIK, the
DisplayFor<T> Html helper in MVC2 depends on the generic
HtmlHelper<..>. So far I didn't manage to get this to work in spark.
I'm too new to spark to actually say something technically meaningful
about this, but it would be nice if <use model="SomeModel" /> would
trigger the generic Html helper instance.

On Dec 7 2009, 8:12 pm, Louis DeJardin <louis.dejar...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> I'm kind of curious also - does <use model="YourModelClass"/> make a
> difference in that case?
>
> On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Artem Tikhomirov <ar...@tikhomirovs.ru>wrote:
>
> > You should create your personal base class for Spark views. Then you should
> > create it's generic derivative having new Html property returning  strongly
> > typed HtmlHelper<T>.
>

> > On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 4:36 PM, Chris <cmdrk...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> >> Is there any way of getting an HtmlHelper<T> instance in a spark
> >> view?  I'm trying to use some third part extensions that depend on
> >> it.  I did find this post (
>

> >>http://groups.google.com/group/spark-dev/browse_thread/thread/618bd44...

> >> ) and so downloaded the latest build from the TeamCity install on
> >> codebetter.com but I still can;t seem to find the the strongly typed
> >> helper.  Any ideas? If this hasn't actually been done I'm quite happy
> >> to fork on gh and give it a go myself.
>
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[Thomas G. Mayfield]

I'm using the 1.0 release, and since there's no easy way to override
the creation of SparkView.Html, this is how I got around it:

public abstract class MySparkView
: SparkView
{
}

public abstract class MySparkView<TModel>
: SparkView<TModel>
where TModel : class
{
public new HtmlHelper<TModel> Html
{
get
{
HtmlHelper<TModel> result = base.Html as HtmlHelper<TModel>;
if (result == null && base.Html != null)
{
result = new HtmlHelper<TModel>(base.Html.ViewContext,
base.Html.ViewDataContainer);
base.Html = result;
}
return result;
}
}
}

Then using the SparkSettings object (I use code to build it up instead
of Web.config):

mySettings.SetPageBaseType(typeof(MySparkView))

I haven't fully tested the change (I'm in the middle of a project
rewrite when I discovered that my converted .aspx views couldn't use
typed helpers anymore), but that portion, at least, is passing view
compilation.

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