Just a quick follow up on my previous post specifically about rendering partial views using the Spark View Engine. If you want to use a partial view and you also want to pass it a model, you just create parameter and pass the model in that parameter.
As I stated, the convention for the shared content is to create a file in the “Shared” view directory and prefix the file with the “_”.
For example:
I have created a post list partial file and I am going to call it from my “Index” view in the “Home” folder.
In the HomeController class, the Index action is just returning 10 items in a IList collection.
1: public ActionResult Index()
2: {
3: IList<PostDto> items = _postService.GetMostRecentPosts();
4:
5: ViewData["BasicPosts"] = items;
6: return View();
7: }
Next, my Index view passes the collection of posts to the partial control. The Index.spark file has the following code.
1: <viewdata BasicPosts="IList<PostDto>">
2:
3:
4: <postList posts="BasicPosts" />
Now the model is in the partial file and I can do with it what ever I want. In this example, the _postList.spark file has the following code that loops through the collection of posts and displays the “Title”.
1: <ul>
2: <for each="var post in posts">
3: <li>${post.Title}</li>
4: </for>
5: </ul>
The above sample produces this partial view.
