Custom View Engine for Razor View Helix-type default paths

Question

Has anyone been able to make a habitat-compatible razor view engine?

Basically I'd like something that can dynamically search

"~/Views/{1}/{0}.cshtml",
"~/Views/Shared/{0}.cshtml"
"~/Views/{<Relative folder name>}/{0}.cshtml"

For example if my project is Sitecore.Foundation.Test and I have:

~/Views/Test/Test.cshtml
~/Views/Test/_Test.cshtml

And then Test.cshtml calls RenderPartial("_Test")

The default razor engine doesn't work for this scenario when the "Test.cshtml" is added as a view rendering, and the page has a controller rendering with a different controller name.

Answer 1

Yes, you can create your custom View Engine to resolve relative paths based on the assembly name.

So, following this guide: https://weblogs.asp.net/imranbaloch/view-engine-with-dynamic-view-location

You can add a path like that:

"~/Views/%feature/{0}.cshtml"

And override the following methods:

protected override IView CreatePartialView(ControllerContext controllerContext, string partialPath)
    {
        var featureName = controllerContext.Controller.GetType().Assembly.GetName().Name;
        return base.CreatePartialView(controllerContext, partialPath.Replace("%feature", featureName));
    }

protected override IView CreateView(ControllerContext controllerContext, string viewPath, string masterPath)

protected override bool FileExists(ControllerContext controllerContext, string virtualPath)

This will resolve to ~/Views/Sitecore.Foundation.Test/Test.cshtml

You can play around with index/substring of . to get it to just feature name.