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Sending HTML email via Hangfire Postal

In my app I have a rich text editor (tinyMCE). I want to take the HTML output from there and insert into a MVC Postal email object and schedule via Hangfire.

Whilst I have this process working as expected the Html is not rendering.

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Unfortunately I can't use Html.Raw(string) as its not available when Hangfire runs.

I get the exception:

RazorEngine.Templating.TemplateCompilationException

Unable to compile template. The name 'Html' does not exist in the current context Other compilation errors may have occurred. Check the Errors property for more information.

RazorEngine.Templating.TemplateCompilationException: Unable to compile template. The name 'Html' does not exist in the current context

Other compilation errors may have occurred. Check the Errors property for more information. at RazorEngine.Compilation.DirectCompilerServiceBase.CompileType(TypeContext context) in c:\Users\abbottm\Documents\GitHub\RazorEngine\src\Core\RazorEngine.Core\Compilation\DirectCompilerServiceBase.cs:line 108 at RazorEngine.Templating.TemplateService.CreateTemplateType(String razorTemplate, Type modelType) in c:\Users\abbottm\Documents\GitHub\RazorEngine\src\Core\RazorEngine.Core\Templating\TemplateService.cs:line 256 at RazorEngine.Templating.TemplateService.GetTemplate[T](String razorTemplate, Object model, String cacheName) in c:\Users\abbottm\Documents\GitHub\RazorEngine\src\Core\RazorEngine.Core\Templating\TemplateService.cs:line 374 at RazorEngine.Templating.TemplateService.GetTemplate(String razorTemplate, Object model, String cacheName) in c:\Users\abbottm\Documents\GitHub\RazorEngine\src\Core\RazorEngine.Core\Templating\TemplateService.cs:line 352

Any ideas?

Solution

  • Since Postal uses RazorEngine to render the Razor views, you must use @Raw(Model.Message) if you want to directly add HTML to the view without it being escaped.