Returning a PartialView with both HTML and JavaScript

Question

I am making an AJAX call (with jQuery) to retrieve a PartialView. Along with the HTML I\'d like to send back a JSON representation of the object the View is dis

Answer 1

Probably not the most elegant answer you'll get, but just to throw this out there:

You could return purely json from your action method,

something that would look like this:

{
    Html: "
 etc...",
    Json: { // your object here
          }
}

in your controller you'll need something like this to render your view:

var existingContext = HttpContext.Current;
var writer = new StringWriter();
var response = new HttpResponse(writer);
var httpContext = new HttpContext(existingContext.Request, response);

var viewResult = myAction(bla);

HttpContext.Current = httpContext;

viewResult.ExecuteResult(this.ControllerContext)

HttpContext.Current = existingContext;
var viewAsHtml = writer.ToString();