Metadata API availability

Dan Valea

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Hi,

I'm currently working on a project that has a considerable amount of different product types (more than 200) and in order to solve this I was thinking to build MetaClasses & MetaFields dynamically using the Metadata API.

Since this is an old API I was wondering if it's a safe approach or if EPiServer might remove this API soon (next year or so).

Also, if there is another possible solution to the problem described above, please let me know. Thank you!

#176700

Mar 23, 2017 19:34

Frederik Vig

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I would consider generating the C# classes you need instead, using Roslyn this has become quite simple and clean. You can generate them based on different data sources (JSON, XML, SQL Data etc).

Hope this helps.

Frederik

#176701

Mar 23, 2017 19:52

Dan Valea

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I’ve already considered that but I don’t want to end up managing more than 200 classes, product detail pages and so on.

#176702

Edited, Mar 23, 2017 20:13

Quan Mai

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No, the MetaObject/MetaField APIs will not be removed anytime soon. With such important APIs even when we obsolete them, it will take (at least) 12 months + 1 major version to remove them completely.

#176707

Mar 23, 2017 23:19

Johan Book

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But do you really need to handle them as distinct types? Where are you using these types you mean?

#176710

Mar 24, 2017 0:03