T4MVC renderpartial and Spark views

Question

 #Html.RenderPartial(MVC.Shared.Views._Sorter);

throws error =>

There is no build provider registered for the extension '.spark'. You can register one in the section in machine.config or web.config. Make sure is has a BuildProviderAppliesToAttribute attribute which includes the value 'Web' or 'All'.

Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.

Exception Details: System.Web.HttpException: There is no build provider registered for the extension '.spark'. You can register one in the section in machine.config or web.config. Make sure is has a BuildProviderAppliesToAttribute attribute which includes the value 'Web' or 'All'.

Any ideas what might be wrong?

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Adding this to web.config=>system.web=>compilation

  <buildProviders>
    <add extension=".spark" type="System.Web.Compilation.PageBuildProvider" />
  </buildProviders>

Forces app to build spark view as webforms view and produces ${Something.something} all around. So - what's an equivalent for spark viewengine?

Answer 1

Can you please try to make the following change to T4MVT.tt. In the method ViewsFolderInfo.AddView, change the line:

Views[viewFieldName] = GetVirtualPath(item);

to

Views[viewFieldName] = viewFieldName;

If that works well, we can just add a switch to the settings file that makes it do this instead of the default full path.

Let me know how that goes!

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Note that MVC.Shared.Views._Sorter is just a constant with the path to the view. If you were to write this code without T4MVC, what exact string would you pass in there?

Maybe Spark has different requirements in the type of view paths it accepts here? If needed, we can tweak T4MVC to make this work, but I'd like to fully understand the Spark behavior outside of T4MVC first.