Asp.net MVC page life cycle

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What is the best way to apply a treatment after the page is rendered (view calculated, html helpers calculated, partial views calculated and so on...) but before the response is sent to the client ? In order to modify this response (with DB access needed)...

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I can't tell what you want answered. Please try to clear up your question. — Biff MaGriff, Jan 20 '11 at 20:28
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1826657/page-generation-time-asp-net-mvc was ok — Proviste, Jan 20 '11 at 20:51

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 20 '11 at 20:28

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http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.mvc.controller.onresultexecuted.aspx

answered Jan 20 '11 at 20:28

jgauffin

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FYI, this is called *before* a view is rendered. – Dave Aug 31 '11 at 15:12
@Dave: No. It's called ***after*** the view have been rendered. You might be thinking on OnActionExecuted. – jgauffin Aug 31 '11 at 15:27
Are you certain? I've tested this first hand (mvc-2) and, at least in MVC2, it's called before :( – Dave Aug 31 '11 at 15:29
Yes I'm sure. And the behavior haven't changed since mvc2. You can read the `ViewResultBase` source code here: http://aspnet.codeplex.com/SourceControl/changeset/view/68345#288022 – jgauffin Aug 31 '11 at 17:41
:( I'll have to revisit this then, because I'd wanted to teardown some Contextual stuff in the OnResultExecuted, which (definitely) causes a nullException when I access the object I'm looking to teardown from the view at render time... Thanks for the link. – Dave Sep 01 '11 at 07:33
OnResultExecuted is called for all action results. You need to check that the result contains a view. – jgauffin Sep 01 '11 at 09:02
Yep - turns out, I had some mini controller actions, which were doing the teardown - paying some attention to the ChilAction attribute's sorted it. Thanks for the pointer! – Dave Sep 01 '11 at 09:35

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 20 '11 at 20:30

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You want to create an HttpModule to handle post-processing events

answered Jan 20 '11 at 20:30

Neil Fenwick

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Asp.net MVC page life cycle

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