Hi,

Yes, it is possible. CatalogImport is an example of doing bulk-catalog operations outside of site context.

I'll come back later with the code of how you register the dependencies for the tool.

And FYI, the bug related to CatalogIndexer is now active and is under fixing.

Regards.

/Q

Thank you

Here's something you can do to set up the dependencies, you'll need to add reference to EPiServer.Events.dll and EPiServer.Framework.dll:

public static void InitializeServiceLocator()
{
var container = new Container();
var locator = new StructureMapServiceLocator(container);
var context = new ServiceConfigurationContext(HostType.Installer, container);

context.Container.Configure(ce =>
{
ce.For().Singleton().Use();
ce.For().Singleton().Use();
ce.For().Singleton().Use();
ce.For().Singleton().Use();

ce.For().Singleton().Use()
.Ctor().Is()
.Ctor().Is(new TimeSpan(1, 0, 0));

ce.For().Singleton().Use();
ce.For().Use(() => CatalogContext.Current);
ce.For().Singleton().Use();
ce.For().Singleton().Use();
ce.For().Singleton().Use();
ce.For().Singleton().Use();
ce.For().Add();

ce.For().Use(() => Mediachase.Commerce.Security.SecurityContext.Current);
ce.For().Use(() => CustomerContext.Current);
ce.For().Use(() => FrameworkContext.Current);
});

ServiceLocator.SetLocator(locator);
}

LocalCacheWrapper and NullTypeScanner should be simple, minimalistic implementation of  ISynchronizedObjectInstanceCache and ITypeScannerLookup, for example:

class NullTypeScanner : ITypeScannerLookup
{
public IEnumerable AllTypes
{
get { return new Type[0]; }
}
}

Regards.

/Q