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[HttpPost] | |
public ActionResult GenerateForm(int Id) | |
{ | |
Customer customer; | |
byte[] baCreatedFormDocument; | |
// get customer by Id from database | |
using (var db = new LiteDatabase(Server.MapPath("~/App_Data/customers.db"))) | |
{ | |
var col = db.GetCollection<Customer>("customers"); | |
col.EnsureIndex(x => x.Id); | |
customer = col.Query() | |
.Where(x => x.Id == Id) | |
.SingleOrDefault(); | |
} | |
using (TXTextControl.ServerTextControl tx = new TXTextControl.ServerTextControl()) | |
{ | |
tx.Create(); | |
// the form template | |
tx.Load(Server.MapPath("~/App_data/form_template.tx"), | |
TXTextControl.StreamType.InternalUnicodeFormat); | |
// loop through all form fields of each text part | |
foreach (IFormattedText textPart in tx.TextParts) | |
{ | |
foreach (FormField formField in textPart.FormFields) | |
{ | |
// get associated value of property; check for null! | |
var propertyValue = | |
typeof(Customer).GetProperty(formField.Name)?.GetValue(customer); | |
// cast values for specific form field types | |
switch (formField.GetType().ToString()) | |
{ | |
case "TXTextControl.TextFormField": // accepts strings | |
case "TXTextControl.SelectionFormField": | |
if (propertyValue != null) | |
((TextFormField)formField).Text = (string)propertyValue; | |
break; | |
case "TXTextControl.CheckFormField": // accepts bool | |
if (propertyValue != null) | |
((CheckFormField)formField).Checked = (bool)propertyValue; | |
break; | |
case "TXTextControl.DateFormField": // accepts Win32 file dates | |
if (propertyValue != null) | |
{ | |
if (Convert.ToDateTime(propertyValue.ToString()) | |
!= DateTime.MinValue) | |
((DateFormField)formField).Date = | |
Convert.ToDateTime(propertyValue.ToString()); | |
} | |
break; | |
} | |
} | |
} | |
// export form | |
tx.Save(out baCreatedFormDocument, BinaryStreamType.AdobePDF); | |
} | |
// return the PDF as an attachment | |
MemoryStream pdfStream = new MemoryStream(); | |
pdfStream.Write(baCreatedFormDocument, 0, baCreatedFormDocument.Length); | |
pdfStream.Position = 0; | |
Response.AppendHeader("content-disposition", | |
"attachment; filename=form_" + Id + ".pdf"); | |
return new FileStreamResult(pdfStream, "application/pdf"); | |
} |
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