How to get media File size

Joost Molenaar

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I use the following code to retrieve my media file, but do not know how to get the file size of the requested file

var contentRepository = ServiceLocator.Current.GetInstance<IContentRepository>();
var contentLink = new ContentReference(57);
var media = contentRepository.Get<MediaFile>(contentLink);

Can anyone help

#81207

Feb 11, 2014 15:54

Dejan Caric

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Hope this helps:

if (media != null)
{
    using (var stream = media.BinaryData.OpenRead())
    {
        long sizeInBites = stream.Length;
    }
}

#81208

Feb 11, 2014 16:31

Joost Molenaar

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Thanks Dejan that works fine!

#81230

Feb 12, 2014 9:52

Daniel Badro

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Hi, Is this the official way to go, to obtain the file size, seems like an overhead creating a stream just for the size.

I am a bit worried about the performance impact when dealing with larger amounts of files.

/Daniel

#87100

Jun 10, 2014 9:00

Marija Jemuovic

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Hey, Daniel,

You might consider a property Size (with ScaffoldColumn(false)) on the ImageFile that is filled once when image is created. That way, you just read the size, but you set it only once.

#87106

Jun 10, 2014 9:25

Daniel Badro

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Hi Marija thank you for your suggestion, I was thinking about doing as you suggested but I am a bit lazy and expected this to be a built in feature in MediaData class.

#87108

Jun 10, 2014 9:34