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Gitte 1 post 71 karma points

Sep 24, 2015 @ 08:42

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Referencing the root media folder

Hi, I was wondering if anyone could help me with this:

How can I loop through all children in the root media folder? Trying to do this with Razor in Umbraco 7.1.4

My problem is I need some way to find media files without using their IDs. As far as I can tell you can't get nodes directly by name, so the best solution I can think of is to traverse down through the media folder tree and find the files that way.

Now I just need to figure out how to access the root folder.

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Alex Skrypnyk 6163 posts 24143 karma points MVP 8x admin c-trib

Sep 29, 2015 @ 20:53

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Hi Gitte,

Do you have some progress with your issue? Why do you need to get media by name?

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Artyom Chernenko 17 posts 91 karma points

Sep 30, 2015 @ 04:50

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Hi Gittie

UmbracoHelper has method TypedMediaAtRoot() returning IEnumerable of IPublishedContent - this will be the list of medias under the media root. Then you are able either to traverse media hierarchy or to call extension method FlattenList(media => media.Children) on IEnumerable

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Artyom Chernenko 17 posts 91 karma points

Sep 30, 2015 @ 05:02

Just for ref - here is an extension method I implemented to get a media URL by media 'path'. You can adapt it for your needs.

public static string GetMediaUrlByPath(this UmbracoHelper umbraco, string path)
    {
        if (path.IsNullOrWhiteSpace())
        {
            return null;
        }
        var p = path.Split(new[] { '/' }, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);
        var currentLevelList = ApplicationContext.Current.ApplicationCache.RuntimeCache.GetCacheItem<IEnumerable<IPublishedContent>>("Media-Root", umbraco.TypedMediaAtRoot, TimeSpan.FromHours(24));
        for(var i = 0; i < p.Length; i++)
        {
            var media = p[i];
            if (i == p.Length - 1)
            {
                return currentLevelList.FirstOrDefault(m => m.Name == media).NotNull(m => m.Url);
            }
            currentLevelList = currentLevelList.FirstOrDefault(m => m.Name == media).NotNull(m => m.DocumentTypeAlias == Constants.Conventions.MediaTypes.Folder ? m.Children() : null);
            if (currentLevelList == null)
            {
                LogHelper.Warn(typeof(MediaExtensions), "Unable to get media by path '{0}': '{1}' media does not exist", () => path, () => media);
                break;
            }
        }
        return null;
    }

For example, calling this method with argument 'Main Site Images/Locations/Brazil/Brazil_1.jpg' will return URL of the image you see on the screenshot

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