Class DefaultShortStringHelper

New default implementation of string functions for short strings such as aliases or URL segments.

Inheritance

System.Object

Namespace: Umbraco.Core.Strings

Assembly: Umbraco.Core.dll

Syntax

public class DefaultShortStringHelper : IShortStringHelper

Remarks

Not optimized to work on large bodies of text.

Meant to replace LegacyShortStringHelper where/when backward compatibility is not an issue.

NOTE: pre-filters run before the string is re-encoded.

Constructors

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DefaultShortStringHelper(IUmbracoSettingsSection)

Declaration

public DefaultShortStringHelper(IUmbracoSettingsSection settings)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
IUmbracoSettingsSection	settings

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DefaultShortStringHelper(DefaultShortStringHelperConfig)

Declaration

public DefaultShortStringHelper(DefaultShortStringHelperConfig config)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
DefaultShortStringHelperConfig	config

Methods

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CleanString(String, CleanStringType)

Cleans a string.

Declaration

public string CleanString(string text, CleanStringType stringType)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
System.String	text	The text to clean.
CleanStringType	stringType	A flag indicating the target casing and encoding of the string. By default, strings are cleaned up to camelCase and Ascii.

Returns

Type	Description
System.String	The clean string.

Remarks

The string is cleaned in the context of the default culture.

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CleanString(String, CleanStringType, Char)

Cleans a string, using a specified separator.

Declaration

public string CleanString(string text, CleanStringType stringType, char separator)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
System.String	text	The text to clean.
CleanStringType	stringType	A flag indicating the target casing and encoding of the string. By default, strings are cleaned up to camelCase and Ascii.
System.Char	separator	The separator.

Returns

Type	Description
System.String	The clean string.

Remarks

The string is cleaned in the context of the default culture.

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CleanString(String, CleanStringType, Char, String)

Cleans a string in the context of a specified culture, using a specified separator.

Declaration

public string CleanString(string text, CleanStringType stringType, char separator, string culture)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
System.String	text	The text to clean.
CleanStringType	stringType	A flag indicating the target casing and encoding of the string. By default, strings are cleaned up to camelCase and Ascii.
System.Char	separator	The separator.
System.String	culture	The culture.

Returns

Type	Description
System.String	The clean string.

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CleanString(String, CleanStringType, String)

Cleans a string in the context of a specified culture.

Declaration

public string CleanString(string text, CleanStringType stringType, string culture)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
System.String	text	The text to clean.
CleanStringType	stringType	A flag indicating the target casing and encoding of the string. By default, strings are cleaned up to camelCase and Ascii.
System.String	culture	The culture.

Returns

Type	Description
System.String	The clean string.

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CleanString(String, CleanStringType, String, Nullable<Char>)

Declaration

protected virtual string CleanString(string text, CleanStringType stringType, string culture, char? separator)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
System.String	text
CleanStringType	stringType
System.String	culture
System.Nullable<System.Char>	separator

Returns

Type	Description
System.String

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CleanStringForSafeAlias(String)

Cleans a string to produce a string that can safely be used in an alias.

Declaration

public virtual string CleanStringForSafeAlias(string text)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
System.String	text	The text to filter.

Returns

Type	Description
System.String	The safe alias.

Remarks

The string will be cleaned in the context of the default culture.

Safe aliases are Ascii only.

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CleanStringForSafeAlias(String, String)

Cleans a string, in the context of a specified culture, to produce a string that can safely be used in an alias.

Declaration

public virtual string CleanStringForSafeAlias(string text, string culture)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
System.String	text	The text to filter.
System.String	culture	The culture.

Returns

Type	Description
System.String	The safe alias.

Remarks

Safe aliases are Ascii only.

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CleanStringForSafeFileName(String)

Cleans a string, in the context of the default culture, to produce a string that can safely be used as a filename, both internally (on disk) and externally (as a URL).

Declaration

public virtual string CleanStringForSafeFileName(string text)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
System.String	text	The text to filter.

Returns

Type	Description
System.String	The safe filename.

Remarks

Legacy says this was used to "overcome an issue when Umbraco is used in IE in an intranet environment" but that issue is not documented.

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CleanStringForSafeFileName(String, String)

Cleans a string to produce a string that can safely be used as a filename, both internally (on disk) and externally (as a URL).

Declaration

public virtual string CleanStringForSafeFileName(string text, string culture)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
System.String	text	The text to filter.
System.String	culture	The culture.

Returns

Type	Description
System.String	The safe filename.

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CleanStringForUrlSegment(String)

Cleans a string to produce a string that can safely be used in an URL segment.

Declaration

public virtual string CleanStringForUrlSegment(string text)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
System.String	text	The text to filter.

Returns

Type	Description
System.String	The safe URL segment.

Remarks

The string will be cleaned in the context of the default culture.

Url segments are Ascii only (no accents...).

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CleanStringForUrlSegment(String, String)

Cleans a string, in the context of a specified culture, to produce a string that can safely be used in an URL segment.

Declaration

public virtual string CleanStringForUrlSegment(string text, string culture)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
System.String	text	The text to filter.
System.String	culture	The culture.

Returns

Type	Description
System.String	The safe URL segment.

Remarks

Url segments are Ascii only (no accents...).

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IsValidFileNameChar(Char)

Declaration

public static bool IsValidFileNameChar(char c)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
System.Char	c

Returns

Type	Description
System.Boolean

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SplitPascalCasing(String, Char)

Splits a Pascal-cased string into a phrase separated by a separator.

Declaration

public virtual string SplitPascalCasing(string text, char separator)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
System.String	text	The text to split.
System.Char	separator	The separator, which defaults to a whitespace.

Returns

Type	Description
System.String	The split text.

Remarks

Supports Utf8 and Ascii strings, not Unicode strings.