I want to return a View() from an action, and the resulting response should have a content type of text/xml instead of the default text/html.
I have tried the following, with no success:
Response.ContentType = "text/xml";
return View();
I know that you can specify the content type by returning ContentResult, but that doesn't render my View.
I'm hoping I don't need to render the view to a string then use return Content(), so I'm probably overlooking some easy way.
<%@ Page Language="C#" Inherits="System.Web.Mvc.ViewPage"
ContentType="text/xml" %>
@{ Response.ContentType = System.Net.Mime.MediaTypeNames.Text.Xml; }You need to render the string. To return text/xml do the following:
return new ContentResult {
ContentType = "text/xml",
Content = UTF8.GetString(yourXmlString),
ContentEncoding = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8
};
Users control (ASCX) doesn't accept ContentType="text/xml".
Solution:
public ActionResult xxx()
{
Response.ContentType = "text/xml";
return View("xxx.ascx");
}
You need a view that doesn't override things and generate HTML, including its own context-type.
A custom view can directly render to Response.Write (see JsonResult in Reflector for a class that is very similar to what you would need).
To render XML without a intermediate string, save your XML to an XmlWriter created over Response.Output.
If you're looking for Razor (.cshtml) view then set content type in the view code:
@{
Response.ContentType = "text/xml";
}
Have you tried setting the response.content from the view's pre render method in the codebehind page? that's obviously assuming you're using the webform view engine
System.Net.Mime.MediaTypeNames.Text.Xml.