Listing all properties on page

Vote:

I am having a bit of trouble in listing all properties within a page. By "all" I mean those withing blocks within content areas too. Actually those within blocks which are within blocks, within content area.

Now this is where I get stuck. I get all referenced items in a content area:

var contentArea = (ContentArea)property.Value;
IList<Guid> contentReferences = contentArea.ReferencedPermanentLinkIds;

Then I fetch each referenced content item by Guid:

foreach (var contentRef in contentReferences)
{
  var content = repository.Get<IContent>(contentRef, new LanguageSelector(languageId));

  ...
}

Now there I get stuck because I should be able to check if content is BlockData or some other type. What I get is a proxy from Castle. If somebody knows what to use with repository.Get<...> or some other way please share.

#65249

Jan 23, 2013 16:59

Vote:

I tried to use <ContentData> instead of <IContent> when getting a content, but still result is of Castle proxy class.

Addition, repository in second code block in first post is actually:

IContentRepository repository = ServiceLocator.Current.GetInstance<IContentRepository>();

#65250

Edited, Jan 23, 2013 17:22

Joel Abrahamsson

Vote:

Hi,

content is BlockData

Will tell you wether it's a block or not. The proxy class inherits the original block class.

Also, you can do

contentArea.Contents

To retrieve the content referenced in the content area directly.

#65253

Edited, Jan 23, 2013 20:11

Vote:

Thank you. As .Contents returns the first level content is there some method that can return all content below recursively, something like GetChildren down to bottom or some level?

#65286

Jan 24, 2013 16:05

Joel Abrahamsson

Vote:

I don't think so. There are such functionality in EPiServer Find's API and maybe/probably in EPiServer Search's as well, but I don't think there's any such public method in the CMS' API.

#65294

Jan 24, 2013 22:16