Dynamic content and State attribute
I had a problem with the State attribute. This is the attribute that is saved inside the span [SPAN class=dynamiccontent contentEditable=false style="....." disabled hash="oqAE..zt1Y=" state="xxx"][/SPAN]
I tried to save some xml inside it, and the dynamic content render just wouldnt save. it seems like the attribute can contains html/xml tags.
The trick was to convert my string into Base64.
public string Value;
#region Value64
public string Value64
{
get
{
if (Value == null)
return null;
return Convert.ToBase64String(System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes((string)Value));
}
set
{
if (value != null)
{
byte[] toDecodeByte = Convert.FromBase64String(value);
System.Text.UTF8Encoding encoder = new System.Text.UTF8Encoding();
System.Text.Decoder utf8Decode = encoder.GetDecoder();
int charCount = utf8Decode.GetCharCount(toDecodeByte, 0, toDecodeByte.Length);
char[] decodedChar = new char[charCount];
utf8Decode.GetChars(toDecodeByte, 0, toDecodeByte.Length, decodedChar, 0);
string result = new String(decodedChar);
Value = result;
}
}
}
#endregion
#region State (64)
public string State
{
get
{
return Value64;
}
set
{
Value64 = value;
}
}
#endregion
Good post Anders. Because the state string is stored as part of the XHTML Property it cannot contain XML in raw form. In these cases we recommend Binary Serialization as you have used. Paul EPiServer Dev Team
/ Paul Smith
Thx, but couldn't the function that retrives the State string convert it for us?
/ Anders Hattestad (hattestad@gazette.no)