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Christian Thorvik
Nov 5, 2021
  1925
(1 votes)

Job for deleting removed properties

I've been annoyed by properties staying on page types after deleting them from code, especially on the .Net 5 version where "From Code" doesn't seem to work. I couldn't find a way to do this, so I wrote this quick and dirty job for removing them. I simply load all properties from optimizely, and check if a property with the same name exists on the type, and if not, delete it.

It has not been tested thoroughly, and I would definitely not use it in a production environment, but it saves me a lot of annoynance when working locallly.

This deletes all data related to the property, so use with caution.

public class RemovedDeletedPropertiesJob : ScheduledJobBase
    {
        private readonly IContentTypeRepository _contentTypeRepository;
        private readonly IPropertyDefinitionRepository _propertyDefinitionRepository;

        private int _amountDeleted;
        
        public RemovedDeletedPropertiesJob(IContentTypeRepository contentTypeRepository, 
            IPropertyDefinitionRepository propertyDefinitionRepository)
        {
            _contentTypeRepository = contentTypeRepository;
            _propertyDefinitionRepository = propertyDefinitionRepository;
        }
        
        public override string Execute()
        {
            _amountDeleted = 0;
            
            foreach (var contentType in _contentTypeRepository.List())
            {
                var clone = contentType.CreateWritableClone() as ContentType;
                
                if(clone == null) continue;
                
                foreach (var prop in _propertyDefinitionRepository.List(contentType.ID))
                {
                    try
                    {
                        if (contentType.ModelType.GetProperty(prop.Name) == null)
                        {
                            _propertyDefinitionRepository.Delete(prop);
                            _amountDeleted++;
                        }
                    }
                    catch (Exception e) { }
                }
            }

            return $"Removed {_amountDeleted} properties";
        }
Nov 05, 2021

Comments

Per Nergård (MVP)
Per Nergård (MVP) Nov 5, 2021 12:52 PM

I did this MissingProperties initmodule/plugin a long tme ago but the logic in that for identifying missing properties does not work in :Net Core version?

 https://world.optimizely.com/blogs/Per-Nergard/Dates/2016/4/missing-properties-initializationmodule/

Christian Thorvik
Christian Thorvik Nov 5, 2021 01:21 PM

I only found the old blog post where the code is missing, so I haven't seen this one. It seems to work though. Only the appsettings part doesn't work, but that's simple enough to fix

Per Nergård (MVP)
Per Nergård (MVP) Nov 5, 2021 01:41 PM

NIce!


Josh Salwen
Josh Salwen Mar 15, 2022 11:51 PM

This works perfectly!

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