Web API - Rendering Razor view by default?

Question

How do I get Web API to render a Razor view using the model that it returns? And only XML/JSON when the accept headers (or .extension) is set? Is this even possible?

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Answer 1

I am looking for something similar to this, but not entirely. Through scouring the web, I found a couple posts by Fredrik Normen. He writes about this exact problem space and actually identifies a third-party solution in the second post listed. Basically, the solution involves creating a custom MediaTypeFormatter that knows how to handle views using the Razor engine provided by Microsoft (through the use of a third-party library).

• Using Razor engine together with Asp.Net Web API to create a Hypermedia API
• Using Razor together with ASP.NET Web API
• ASP.Net Web API and using Razor the next step

Hopefully Microsoft will implement something soon in Web API as Hypermedia seems to be gaining traction.

Hope this helps!