You should be OK with that Damian I think.  You may not be able to access it directly in the ApplicationStarted event, but you can in the PublishedContentRequest.Prepared event when that is fired from the arguments, e.g. 

    protected override void ApplicationStarted(UmbracoApplicationBase umbracoApplication, ApplicationContext applicationContext)
    {
        PublishedContentRequest.Prepared += PublishedContentRequest_Prepared;
        base.ApplicationStarted(umbracoApplication, applicationContext);
    }

    private void PublishedContentRequest_Prepared(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
    {
        var request = sender as Umbraco.Web.Routing.PublishedContentRequest;
        if (request != null && request.HasPublishedContent)
        {
            var content = request.PublishedContent;
            ...
        }
    }

Andy

Thats not quite what i was after...

Here is my code as it stands - it just feels a bit dirty using the old Node instead of Umbraco.GetTypedContent(id) for example. What i needed is a way to create an umbrco helper in the event - but UmbracoContext.Current is unavailable.

public void OnApplicationStarted(UmbracoApplicationBase umbracoApplication,
        ApplicationContext applicationContext)
    {
        PublishedContentRequest.Prepared += PublishedContentRequest_Prepared;
    }

    private void PublishedContentRequest_Prepared(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        // Check to make sure the request is valid
        var request = sender as PublishedContentRequest;
        if (request == null || !request.HasPublishedContent)
            return;

        //See if member is in lapsed role
        //
        var lapsed = Roles.IsUserInRole("Lapsed");

        if (!lapsed) return;

        var pageIsProtected = Access.IsProtected(request.PublishedContent.Id, request.PublishedContent.Path);


        // Bounce to banned page
        //
        if (pageIsProtected)
        {
            const int lapsedId = 4497;

            Node lapsedNode = null;

            lapsedNode = new Node(lapsedId);
            var lapsedUrl = "/account/lapsed";

            try
            {
                lapsedUrl = lapsedNode.Url;
            }
            catch (Exception)
            {
            }

            request.SetRedirect(lapsedUrl, 302);
        }
    }

I see.  Well another option might be to query from the published content - something like:

var lapsedPageUrl = request.PublishedContent
   .AnscestorsOrSelf(1) 
   .Descendents("LapsedPageDocTypeAlias")
   .First().Url;  

 (that query is off the top of my head so almost certainly wrong... but illustrates the point).

Andy

Thought about that but its a generic type im looking for as a specific page so i guess i could search on name but too flaky.

Ill leave it using Node for now but don't know why UmbracoContext.Current is null when the PublishedContentRequest.Prepared event fires! ??

Maybe ill ask Stephan and im sure he can shed some light on it.

Cheers Andy.

Damian

Good idea!  Do update back if you get a solution, I'd be interested to hear.

But PublishedContentRequest_Prepared runs for every request? Was that the intention?

I have been looking for a way to access the Umbraco context in the startup events, but with no luck so far.

/ Dennis

I am trying to do someting like Articulate Git at line 49. In my case i wanna construct my url by concatenating to specifc nodes. for instance i wanna check all nodes of type X, then loop and create a route for each of them....

someone have an idea how to achieve this ?

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