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  • Chris Foot 61 posts 93 karma points
    Mar 30, 2016 @ 17:49
    Chris Foot
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    Serializing published content

    Hi Everyone,

    I am currently writing an api for a custom application my company is writing. Part of this involves getting published content out in JSON format. When I try serializing ipublished content I obviously get a lot of umbraco data and relations that I simply don't need (in fact it actually fails with a stack overflow!). Is there a way to get just the custom properties from an item of content without specifying the fields?

    I am using webapi and passing it objects to serialize itself and I'm using a dynamic to manually specify the fields. The Product type which I'm initially selecting into is from modelsbuilder. My code currently looks a little like this:

      public object Get(string keywords = "")
        {
            // Get Data from Umbraco
            var allProducts = Umbraco.TypedContent(1100).Children.Select(x => new Product(x));
            if (keywords != "")
            {
                allProducts = allProducts.Where(x => x.Name.Contains(keywords));
            }
    
    
            return allProducts.Select(x => new
            {
                id = x.Id,
                name = x.Name,
                price = x.Price
            });
        }
    

    It seems to me that there should be a simple way to do this and i'm probably going about the whole thing entirely the wrong way but I just can't seem to find it!

  • Alex Skrypnyk 6132 posts 23951 karma points MVP 7x admin c-trib
    Mar 30, 2016 @ 21:41
    Alex Skrypnyk
    0

    Hi Chris,

    Try to use Automapper, create map from IPublishedContent to your class with one row. It's really simple.

    Thanks

  • Chris Foot 61 posts 93 karma points
    Mar 30, 2016 @ 21:57
    Chris Foot
    0

    Hi Alex,

    Wouldn't that require me recreating a class every time a field on the document type changed? The point is to dynamically output any custom fields on the document without having to recompile the project.

    Thanks

    Chris

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