Spoofing ASP.NET Framework controller contexts

This is useful if you need to make use of Rotativa in a ASP.NET Framework Web API instead of a ASP.NET Framework MVC project for example.

The fake controller context helper class

namespace MyProject.Models
{
    public class FakeController : Controller
    {

    }
    public class FakeControllerContextHelper
    {
        public ControllerContext GetFakeControllerContext(string controllerName)
        {
            var context = new HttpContextWrapper(HttpContext.Current);
            var routeData = new RouteData();
            routeData.Values.Add("controller", controllerName);
            var controllerContext = new ControllerContext(new RequestContext(context, routeData), new FakeController());
            return controllerContext;
        }
    }
}

Example of another class making use of our fake controller context helper class

// Create new controller instance that you want to spoof.
MagicController magicController = new MagicController();

// Spoof the controller context so Rotativa will believe it's a normal MVC HTML controller and can find the relative views.
Models.FakeControllerContextHelper fakeControllerContexthelper = new Models.FakeControllerContextHelper();
magicController.ControllerContext = fakeControllerContexthelper.GetFakeControllerContext("magic");

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