Extending Unified File

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Hi,

I want to extend/inherit from the UnifiedFile class to add some extra properties and encapsulate the functionality in my project

However upon doing so e.g.

ImageItem : UnifiedFile

I get the error no constructor exists with 0 arguments. I do not really need all the extraneous info associated with the default constructor is there a way round using it?

Has anyone implemented something similiar and has some advice?

Thanks a lot

 

#25891
Nov 11, 2008 12:39
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Hi Ian,

I'm not sure that inheriting from UnifiedFile is such a good idea.  The problem is that none of the methods in EPiServer are going to give you back an instance of an ImageItem, so even if you construct a UnifiedFile object you'll be unable to get it back unless you explicitly construct a new ImageItem and initialize it with the data from the UnifiedFile returned from EPiServer.

I'd suggest instead creating a wrapper class for UnifiedFile, like this:

public class ImageItem

{

public UnifiedFile UFile { get; private set; }


public ImageItem(UnifiedFile file)
{
UFile = file;
}

#region Utility Methods that operate on UFile, specific to ImageItem

#endregion

}
 
Then you can easily turn any UnifiedFile in to an ImageItem. 

Hope this is useful.

 

Andy

 

#25894
Edited, Nov 11, 2008 12:56
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Hi Andy,

I was imagining that might be the way to go.

Thanks for the confirmation

Ian

 

#25909
Nov 11, 2008 17:54
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