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/*----------------------------------------------------------------- | |
** Post method | |
** // POST api/merge?format=[PDF|PDFA|DOCX|DOC] | |
**---------------------------------------------------------------*/ | |
public ResponseResults Post([FromBody]dynamic mailMergeRequestObject, | |
[FromUri]string format) | |
{ | |
// create a new ResponseResults object that contains the | |
// resulting document as a byte[] | |
ResponseResults results = new ResponseResults(); | |
// helper object of type 'MailMergeRequestObject' to extract the | |
// JSON data (template and data) | |
MailMergeRequestObject mmroJSONResult = | |
(MailMergeRequestObject)JsonConvert.DeserializeObject( | |
Convert.ToString(mailMergeRequestObject), | |
typeof(MailMergeRequestObject)); | |
// create a new ServerTextControl | |
using (TXTextControl.ServerTextControl tx = | |
new TXTextControl.ServerTextControl()) | |
{ | |
tx.Create(); | |
// create a new MailMerge instance | |
using (TXTextControl.DocumentServer.MailMerge mm = | |
new TXTextControl.DocumentServer.MailMerge()) | |
{ | |
mm.TextComponent = tx; | |
// load the template from the helper object | |
mm.LoadTemplateFromMemory(mmroJSONResult.Template, | |
TXTextControl.DocumentServer.FileFormat.InternalUnicodeFormat); | |
// create a new DataSet and the given XML data into it | |
DataSet ds = new DataSet(); | |
XmlDocument doc = | |
JsonConvert.DeserializeXmlNode(mmroJSONResult.Data); | |
XmlNodeReader reader = new XmlNodeReader(doc); | |
ds.ReadXml(reader, XmlReadMode.Auto); | |
// merge the template with the DataSet | |
mm.Merge(ds.Tables[0]); | |
byte[] data; | |
BinaryStreamType streamType = BinaryStreamType.AdobePDF; | |
// define the export format based on the given Uri parameter | |
switch (format.ToUpper()) | |
{ | |
case "PDFA": | |
streamType = BinaryStreamType.AdobePDFA; break; | |
case "DOCX": | |
streamType = BinaryStreamType.WordprocessingML; break; | |
case "DOC": | |
streamType = BinaryStreamType.MSWord; break; | |
} | |
// save the document and fill the 'ResponseResults' object | |
mm.SaveDocumentToMemory(out data, streamType, null); | |
results.Document = data; | |
} | |
} | |
// return the 'ResponseResults' object | |
return results; | |
} |
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