How to attach a PDF generated using jsPDF to the mail using asp.net c#
You cannot call client-side code (Javascript function) from server code (c#). You can only communicate via the (HTTP/HTTPs) protocol.
I think you need to generate the PDF from the client and then send that PDF to server so that you can attach the PDF to an email.
In that case you need to first generate the PDF and send it to the server as a base64 string.
You can then convert the base64 string to PDF in C# and mail it as an attachment.
Client Side:
function generatePdf() {
var doc = new jsPdf();
doc.text("jsPDF to Mail", 40, 30);
var binary = doc.output();
return binary ? btoa(binary) : "";
}
Posting the base64 pdf content to the server:
var reqData = generatePdf();
$.ajax({
url:url,
data: JSON.stringify({data:reqData}),
dataType: "json",
type: "POST",
contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
success:function(){}
});
On the server (MVC Controller):
public ActionResult YourMethod(string data)
{
//create pdf
var pdfBinary = Convert.FromBase64String(data);
var dir = Server.MapPath("~/DataDump");
if (!Directory.Exists(dir))
Directory.CreateDirectory(dir);
var fileName = dir + "\\PDFnMail-" + DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyyMMdd-HHMMss") + ".pdf";
// write content to the pdf
using (var fs = new FileStream(fileName, FileMode.Create))
using (var writer = new BinaryWriter(fs))
{
writer.Write(pdfBinary, 0, pdfBinary.Length);
writer.Close();
}
//Mail the pdf and delete it
// .... call mail method here
return null;
}
Check out here for more information https://github.com/Purush0th/PDFnMail