refactoring Pdf generation

Yavsc/ApiControllers/PdfEstimateController.cs

@@ -79,13 +79,13 @@ namespace Yavsc.ApiControllers
         public IActionResult GetTex(long id)
         {
             Response.ContentType = "text/x-tex";
-            return ViewComponent("Estimate",new object[] { id, false });
+            return ViewComponent("Estimate",new object[] { id, "LaTeX" });
         }
 
         [HttpPost("gen/{id}")]
         public IActionResult GeneratePdf(long id)
         {
-            return ViewComponent("Estimate",new object[] { id, true } );
+            return ViewComponent("Estimate",new object[] { id, "Pdf" } );
         }
     }
 }

Yavsc/Helpers/TeXHelpers.cs

@@ -1,19 +1,24 @@
 using System;
+using System.Diagnostics;
 using System.IO;
 using System.Linq;
 using Microsoft.AspNet.Http;
 using Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc;
 using Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc.Rendering;
 using Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc.ViewEngines;
+using Yavsc.ViewModels.Gen;
 
 namespace Yavsc.Helpers
 {
-    public class TeXString  {
+    public class TeXString
+    {
 
-        public class Replacement {
+        public class Replacement
+        {
             string target;
             string replacement;
-            public Replacement(string target, string replacement){
+            public Replacement(string target, string replacement)
+            {
                 this.target = target;
                 this.replacement = replacement;
             }
@@ -49,9 +54,11 @@ namespace Yavsc.Helpers
             new Replacement("–","\\textendash")
         };
         string data;
-        public TeXString(string str) {
+        public TeXString(string str)
+        {
             data = str;
-            foreach (var r in SpecialCharsRendering) {
+            foreach (var r in SpecialCharsRendering)
+            {
                 data = r.Execute(data);
             }
         }
@@ -76,6 +83,49 @@ namespace Yavsc.Helpers
             if (target == null) return null;
             return new TeXString(target.NewLinesWith(lineSeparator));
         }
+        public static bool GenerateEstimatePdf(this PdfGenerationViewModel Model)
+        {
+            string errorMsg = null;
+            var billdir = Model.DestDir;
+            var tempdir = Startup.SiteSetup.TempDir;
+            string name = Model.BaseFileName;
+            string fullname = new FileInfo(
+                 System.IO.Path.Combine(tempdir, name)).FullName;
+            string ofullname = new FileInfo(
+                 System.IO.Path.Combine(billdir, name)).FullName;
+
+            FileInfo fi = new FileInfo(fullname + ".tex");
+            FileInfo fo = new FileInfo(ofullname + ".pdf");
+            using (StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter(fi.FullName))
+            {
+                sw.Write(Model.TeXSource);
+            }
+            if (!fi.Exists)
+            {
+                errorMsg = "Source write failed";
+            }
+            else
+            {
+                using (Process p = new Process())
+                {
+                    p.StartInfo.WorkingDirectory = tempdir;
+                    p.StartInfo = new ProcessStartInfo();
+                    p.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
+                    p.StartInfo.FileName = "/usr/bin/texi2pdf";
+                    p.StartInfo.Arguments = $"--batch --build-dir=. -o {fo.FullName} {fi.FullName}";
+                    p.Start();
+                    p.WaitForExit();
+                    if (p.ExitCode != 0)
+                    {
+                        errorMsg = $"Pdf generation failed with exit code: {p.ExitCode}";
+                    }
+                }
+                fi.Delete();
+            }
+            Model.Generated = fo.Exists;
+            Model.GenerationErrorMessage = new HtmlString(errorMsg);
+            return fo.Exists;
+        }
 
         public static string RenderViewToString(
             this Controller controller, IViewEngine engine,

Yavsc/Views/Shared/Components/Estimate/Estimate_pdf.cshtml

@@ -4,47 +4,19 @@
 @using System.Diagnostics
 @using System.Text
 @using Yavsc.Formatters
+@using Yavsc.Helpers
 @model Yavsc.ViewModels.Gen.PdfGenerationViewModel
-@{
-    string errorMsg = null;
-    var billdir = Model.DestDir;
-    var tempdir = Startup.SiteSetup.TempDir;
-    string name = Model.BaseFileName;
-    string fullname = new FileInfo(
-         System.IO.Path.Combine(tempdir,name)).FullName;
-    string ofullname = new FileInfo(
-         System.IO.Path.Combine(billdir,name)).FullName;
 
-      FileInfo fi = new FileInfo(fullname + ".tex");
+@{ 
-      FileInfo fo = new FileInfo(ofullname + ".pdf");
+  Model.GenerateEstimatePdf();
-      using (StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter (fi.FullName))
-      {
-        sw.Write (Model.TeXSource);
-      }
-      if (!fi.Exists)
-      {
-          errorMsg = "Source write failed";
-      }
-      else {
-      using (Process p = new Process ()) {
-        p.StartInfo.WorkingDirectory = tempdir;
-        p.StartInfo = new ProcessStartInfo ();
-        p.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
-        p.StartInfo.FileName = "/usr/bin/texi2pdf";
-        p.StartInfo.Arguments = $"--batch --build-dir=. -o {fo.FullName} {fi.FullName}";
-        p.Start ();
-        p.WaitForExit ();
-        if (p.ExitCode != 0) {
-            errorMsg = $"Pdf generation failed with exit code: {p.ExitCode}";
-          }
-      }
-      fi.Delete();
-      }
-      ViewBag.GenSuccess = fo.Exists; 
 }
-@if (ViewBag.GenSuccess) {
+@if (Model.Generated) {
-  @($"{name}.pdf")
+  <div>
+  @(Model.BaseFileName).pdf was generated
+  </div>
 } else {
-  @errorMsg
+  <div class="error">
-  <text>Something went wrong ...</text>
+  @Model.GenerationErrorMessage
+  <p>Something went wrong ...</p>
+  </div>
 }