Create Media Folders programmatically

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Create Media Folders programmatically

Jon Trow

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Hi - I'm in the process of migrating an image importer from Epi 6R2 to Epi 7.5 and while I can successfully import images, I'm unable to programatically create new folders to put the images in.

I'd like to create a folder stucture similar to the following:

Photos\Events\Event1\photo1.jpg

Photos\Events\Event1\photo2.jpg

Photos\Events\Event2\photo1.jpg

Photos\Events\Event2\photo2.jpg

The code I use to save the images is as follows:

public void SaveFile(string path, string fileName, byte[] bytes)
{
var contentRepository = ServiceLocator.Current.GetInstance();
var blobFactory = ServiceLocator.Current.GetInstance();

var imageFile = contentRepository.GetDefault(SiteDefinition.Current.GlobalAssetsRoot);
imageFile.Name = fileName;

var blob = blobFactory.CreateBlob(imageFile.BinaryDataContainer, ".jpg");

Stream stream = new MemoryStream(bytes);
blob.Write(stream);

imageFile.BinaryData = blob;
var file1ID = contentRepository.Save(imageFile, SaveAction.Publish, AccessLevel.NoAccess);
}

Thanks,

Jon

#120453

Apr 17, 2015 12:37

Quan Mai

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Hi,

To create a folder, you can use ContentFolder instead of ImageFile

Regards.

#120455

Apr 17, 2015 13:03

Johan Björnfot

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To create a folder you should use ContentFolder as the type argument to GetDefault<T> as

contentRepository.GetDefault<ContentFolder>(parentLink)

#120456

Apr 17, 2015 13:04

Jon Trow

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Thanks both, that works perfectly!

To anyone in the same boat I've thrown some rough code which will create a folder in the root if a parent content reference isn't passed and in a sub folder if it is.

        //Create a Folder in the root
        public ContentReference CreateFolder(string folderName)
        {
            var contentRepository = ServiceLocator.Current.GetInstance<IContentRepository>();
            var contentFile = contentRepository.GetDefault<ContentFolder>(SiteDefinition.Current.GlobalAssetsRoot);
            contentFile.Name = folderName;
            return contentRepository.Save(contentFile, SaveAction.Publish, AccessLevel.NoAccess);
        }

        //Create a new folder
        public ContentReference CreateFolder(string folderName, ContentReference parentReference)
        {
            var contentRepository = ServiceLocator.Current.GetInstance<IContentRepository>();
            var contentFile = contentRepository.GetDefault<ContentFolder>(parentReference);
            contentFile.Name = folderName;
            return contentRepository.Save(contentFile, SaveAction.Publish, AccessLevel.NoAccess);
        }

- Jon

#120459

Apr 17, 2015 13:36

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