Is there anyway to hook into IContentRepository.Save() method?

Tien Bui

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Hi,

As you know in DataFactory we have some public events like: CreatedPage, SavedPage, MovedPage ... then we can hook some custom implementation into those events. But those events are only for PageData since EPiServer uses IContentRepository instead of DataFactory to manipulate BlockData then I'm wondering is there anyway to do the same for BlockData?

Thank you very much!

#70955

May 06, 2013 13:10

Tarjei Olsen

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How about using some validator logic for this?

public class PageDataValidator : IValidate<PageData>
{
  public IEnumerable<ValidationError> Validate(PageData instance)
  {
    // TODO:   manipulate instace properties.
    return new ValidationError[0];
  }
}

I have used this approach to make sure the URLSegment property is always lower case. To validate other content types, simply change the type of class to validate in IValidate<T>

#70960

Edited, May 06, 2013 13:20

Tien Bui

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Probably I didnt describe clearly, what I'd like to do is to hook into Published event while publishing a block.

#70961

May 06, 2013 13:24

Tien Bui

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Ok, I sorted it out, there're also some equivalent events for block in DataFactory like: SavingContent, PublishingContent ...

#70962

Edited, May 06, 2013 13:36

Johan Björnfot

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If you do not want to access the events through direct access to DataFactory you can aslo find them defined on the interface IContentEvent which is registered in IOC container

#70965

May 06, 2013 14:03

Tien Bui

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Very nice Johan!

#70981

May 06, 2013 18:53

Vincent

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Thanks Johan for this tips. I was looking for this interface ages ago, but no luck. EPiServer SDK still need to be improved :)

#71018

May 07, 2013 12:18

Andreas Runnhagen

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Small correction. The interface name is IContentEvents :)

#71537

May 22, 2013 10:44