Flickr/FlickrNet results to Razor page

Question

I'm working in .NET Core with the FlickrNet NuGet package, which I use to retrieve images from Flickr:

PhotoCollection photos = flickr.PhotosSearch(options);

The above successfully retrieves a collection of photos. However I struggling to work out how to pass these to the Razor View. Normally one returns a view with a model, but here I want to return a generic collection. How should I go about this?

@using FlickrNet
@List<PhotoCollection> photos

How do I return the PhotoCollection to the Razor view for display?

Answer 1

In the source code we can see that PhotoCollection extends PagedPhotoCollection which extends System.Collections.ObjectModel.Collection<Photo>

So ultimately your model is Collection<Photo>.

Your view would then be

@using FlickrNet
@model PhotoCollection

<div>Page Number: @Model.Page</div>

@foreach(var photo in Model)
{
    <div>@photo.PhotoId</div>
    <div>@photo.Title</div>
    ...
}

And your controller

public ActionResult GetPhotos()
{
    PhotoCollection photos = flickr.PhotoSearch(options);

    return View(photos);
}