Using Razor View Engine with Nancy, .cshtml not an available extension

Question

I’m working on a project using Nancy on a Mac, and I’m editing my project using a standard text editor (Atom). I would like to use the Razor View Engine, and I’m trying to figure out how.

I included

• Nancy.Viewengines.Razor": "1.3.0" in the dependencies in my project.json file

• using Nancy.ViewEngines.Razor; at the top of my HomeModule.cs file

• @inherits Nancy.ViewEngines.Razor.NancyRazorViewBase<nancytest.Objects.Task> at the top of the View I would like to use Razor in (task_added.cshtml), which has an extension of .cshtml

But when I load up the project, I get the error:

Nancy.RequestExecutionException: Oh noes! ---> Nancy.ViewEngines.ViewNotFoundException: Unable to locate view 'task_added.cshtml' Currently available view engine extensions: sshtml,html,htm```

Is there anything else I should include for it to recognize .cshtml?

Answer 1

Got it to work! Unfortunately, the view engine is built on code that will not run on a Mac. This solution only works on Windows.

I added the following code to my configuration file (Startup.cs), translated from the Razor Engine Wiki.

public class RazorConfig : IRazorConfiguration
{
    public IEnumerable<string> GetAssemblyNames()
    {
        return null;
    }

    public IEnumerable<string> GetDefaultNamespaces()
    {
        return null;
    }

    public bool AutoIncludeModelNamespace
    {
        get { return false; }
    }
}

The line @inherits Nancy.ViewEngines.Razor.NancyRazorViewBase<nancytest.Objects.Task> at the top of each View is also unnecessary.