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Class VirtualPathNativeProvider

A truly Native provider.

Inheritance
System.Object
VirtualPathNativeProvider
Inherited Members
Namespace: EPiServer.Web.Hosting
Assembly: EPiServer.dll
Version: 8.11.0
Syntax
public class VirtualPathNativeProvider : VirtualPathUnifiedProvider

Constructors

VirtualPathNativeProvider(String, NameValueCollection)

Initializes a new instance of the VirtualPathNativeProvider class.

Declaration
public VirtualPathNativeProvider(string name, NameValueCollection configParameters)
Parameters
Type Name Description
System.String name

The name of the provider

System.Collections.Specialized.NameValueCollection configParameters

The config parameters for the provider

VirtualPathNativeProvider(String, NameValueCollection, IContentLoader, IContentProviderManager, IPageQuickSearch)

Initializes a new instance of the VirtualPathNativeProvider class.

Declaration
public VirtualPathNativeProvider(string name, NameValueCollection configParameters, IContentLoader contentQueryable, IContentProviderManager pageProviderManager, IPageQuickSearch pageQuickSearch)
Parameters
Type Name Description
System.String name

The name of the provider

System.Collections.Specialized.NameValueCollection configParameters

The config parameters for the provider

IContentLoader contentQueryable

The content queryable.

IContentProviderManager pageProviderManager

The page provider manager.

IPageQuickSearch pageQuickSearch

The page quick search.

Fields

accessLevels

The access levels for the native provider.

Declaration
protected Dictionary<string, AccessLevel> accessLevels
Field Value
Type Description
System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary<System.String, AccessLevel>

localPathBase

The local base directory for this instance

Declaration
protected DirectoryInfo localPathBase
Field Value
Type Description
System.IO.DirectoryInfo

Properties

LocalPath

Gets or sets the local path for this provider

Declaration
public string LocalPath { get; set; }
Property Value
Type Description
System.String

The local path.

Methods

AppendExplicitAccess(String, AccessLevel)

Appends the explicit access.

Declaration
protected void AppendExplicitAccess(string commaSeparatedListOfRoles, AccessLevel explicitAccess)
Parameters
Type Name Description
System.String commaSeparatedListOfRoles

The comma separated list of roles.

AccessLevel explicitAccess

The explicit access.

DirectoryExists(String)

Gets a value that indicates whether a directory exists in the virtual file system.

Declaration
public override bool DirectoryExists(string virtualPath)
Parameters
Type Name Description
System.String virtualPath

The virtual path.

Returns
Type Description
System.Boolean

FileExists(String)

Gets a value that indicates whether a file exists in the virtual file system.

Declaration
public override bool FileExists(string virtualPath)
Parameters
Type Name Description
System.String virtualPath

The path to the virtual file.

Returns
Type Description
System.Boolean

true if the file exists in the virtual file system; otherwise, false.

GetCacheDependency(String, IEnumerable, DateTime)

Creates a cache dependency based on the specified virtual paths.

Declaration
public override CacheDependency GetCacheDependency(string virtualPath, IEnumerable virtualPathDependencies, DateTime utcStart)
Parameters
Type Name Description
System.String virtualPath

The path to the primary virtual resource.

System.Collections.IEnumerable virtualPathDependencies

An array of paths to other resources required by the primary virtual resource.

System.DateTime utcStart

The UTC time at which the virtual resources were read.

Returns
Type Description
System.Web.Caching.CacheDependency

A System.Web.Caching.CacheDependency object for the specified virtual resources.

Remarks

virtualPathDependencies has to be an System.Collections.IEnumerable of System.String. All the elements that are not strings will be ignored. No exception will be thrown.

GetDirectory(String)

Gets the directory.

Declaration
public override VirtualDirectory GetDirectory(string virtualPath)
Parameters
Type Name Description
System.String virtualPath

The virtual path.

Returns
Type Description
System.Web.Hosting.VirtualDirectory

GetFile(String)

Gets a virtual file from the virtual file system.

Declaration
public override VirtualFile GetFile(string virtualPath)
Parameters
Type Name Description
System.String virtualPath

The path to the virtual file.

Returns
Type Description
System.Web.Hosting.VirtualFile

A descendent of the System.Web.Hosting.VirtualFile class that represents a file in the virtual file system.

MapVirtualPathToLocalPath(String, out String)

Maps a virtual (relative) path to an local absolute path

Declaration
public bool MapVirtualPathToLocalPath(string virtualPath, out string outLocalPath)
Parameters
Type Name Description
System.String virtualPath

the virtual path

System.String outLocalPath

returned local absolute path

Returns
Type Description
System.Boolean

True if virtual path was mapped successfully to an absolute path within the namespace of this provider, false otherwise

Remarks

Note that this function does not check if the file actually exists, it only cares about path mapping

QueryAccess(String, IPrincipal)

The VirtualPathNativeProvider configures explicit access permissions "globally" (thus effectively ignoring the virtualPath parameter)

Declaration
public override AccessLevel QueryAccess(string virtualPath, IPrincipal user)
Parameters
Type Name Description
System.String virtualPath

The path to check access against

System.Security.Principal.IPrincipal user

The user

Returns
Type Description
AccessLevel
Overrides

Extension Methods