Possible ISelectionQuery bug for GetItemByValue

Matthew Jimenez

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I've implemented ISelectionQuery to provide a select items from an API. The GetItems query works and sets the property on my block, but when loading that block again the lookup is blank, even though the value is set.

I've ran this in a debugger and found that GetItemByValue always has a value of empty string rather than the string value stored in the property.
Is this a bug?

#204921

Jun 20, 2019 20:42

Matthew Jimenez

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Here's a snippet of the block class to show my usage of the selection query:

public class StaffMemberBlock : BlockData {
    [Display(Name = "Staff Search", GroupName = SystemTabNames.Content, Order = 10)]
    [AutoSuggestSelection(typeof(StaffMemberSelectionQuery))]
    public virtual string Id { get; set; }
}

#204922

Jun 20, 2019 20:47

Jake Jones

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Hi Matthew,

Are you able to give an example of the Id string value?

The value is fetched via a GET request to the SelectionQueryStore (/episerver/Shell/stores/selectionquery), can you take a look at what response you're getting from that (your request will look something like: /episerver/Shell/stores/selectionquery/StaffMemberSelectionQuery/123)? Using some unsafe URL characters in the LineItem value can ultimately screw this up and might cause the behaviour you're seeing.

#204923

Edited, Jun 20, 2019 22:38

Matthew Jimenez

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Found the issue! A rewrite rule in my web config was adding a trailing slash, which that store does handle as I expected.

I checked the network requests from the web inspector and found this GET for /EPiServer/Shell/stores/selectionquery/PublicWebsite.Models.SelectionQueries.StaffMemberSelectionQuery/brian-m-wicklund/ which returns

{}&&{"name":"","id":""}

After removing the rule the request became /EPiServer/Shell/stores/selectionquery/PublicWebsite.Models.SelectionQueries.StaffMemberSelectionQuery/brian-m-wicklund which returns

{}&&{"name":"Wicklund, Brian M.","id":"brian-m-wicklund"}

#204924

Jun 20, 2019 23:29