This way it nearly works:

        public string GetPageContent(HttpContext httpContext, string content)
        {
            var httpContextBase = new HttpContextWrapper(httpContext);

            var urlResolver = ServiceLocator.Current.GetInstance<UrlResolver>();
            var page = urlResolver.Route(new UrlBuilder(httpContext.Request.Url));

            //Resolve the right Template based on Episervers own templating engine
            var templateResolver = ServiceLocator.Current.GetInstance<TemplateResolver>();
            var model = templateResolver.ResolvePageTemplate(httpContextBase, page);

            //Resolve the controller
            var contentController = ServiceLocator.Current.GetInstance(model.TemplateType) as ControllerBase;
            string controllerName = contentController.GetType().Name.Replace("Controller", string.Empty);

            RouteData routeData = new RouteData();
            routeData.Values.Add("currentContent", page);
            routeData.Values.Add("controllerType", model.TemplateType);
            routeData.Values.Add("language", ContentLanguage.PreferredCulture.Name);
            routeData.Values.Add("controller", controllerName);
            routeData.Values.Add("action", "Index");
            routeData.Values.Add("node", page.ContentLink.ID);

            //var controllerFactory = ControllerBuilder.Current.GetControllerFactory();
            var controllerFactory = ServiceLocator.Current.GetInstance<IControllerFactory>();
            var controller = (ControllerBase)controllerFactory.CreateController(httpContextBase.Request.RequestContext, controllerName);
            var controllerContext = new ControllerContext(httpContextBase, routeData, controller);            
            var controllerDescriptor = new ReflectedControllerDescriptor(controller.GetType());

            var actionDescriptor = controllerDescriptor.FindAction(controllerContext, "Index");

            var actionViewResult = actionDescriptor.Execute(controllerContext, new Dictionary<string, object>() {{"currentPage", page }}) as ViewResult;
            var viewResult = actionViewResult.ViewEngineCollection.FindView(controllerContext, actionViewResult.ViewName, actionViewResult.MasterName);

            using (var stringWriter = new StringWriter())
            {
                var viewContext = new ViewContext(controllerContext, viewResult.View, actionViewResult.ViewData, actionViewResult.TempData, stringWriter);                
                viewResult.View.Render(viewContext, stringWriter);
                return stringWriter.ToString();
            }
        }
    }

When I start to render the action result, there is a NullReferenceException, because the IResultFilter, with is normaly set by an IInitializableModule, is not executed.

It seems, that the initiazation module is not loaded in that context. Is there a posibility to execute the module in that context or to execute the action with all filters?

Best regards

Christian

Hi,

Why not just use HttpClient https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.http.httpclient(v=vs.118).aspx?

Actually, I was trying to avoid an Http request because I thought it was cleaner and faster to get the html generated by code, but with the volume of calls, I'm not sure anymore if that's really faster.

I for one think that just making an http call is much cleaner and less code is required. Why would it be slower, and is speed important here? If your website is fast already, the call will be fast as well.

I would go with a http client call