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Adriano Fabri 459 posts 1602 karma points

Jun 28, 2019 @ 06:47

Extending Umbraco and using the API

Umbraco 8

Hi, I'm updating my projects for Umbraco v8 but I have some problems.

I'm trying to update this code that work perfectly in v7:

    var contentTypeService = Current.Services.ContentTypeService;
    var contentService = Current.Services.ContentService;

    if (contentTypeService.GetContentType("falmHKCacheCleanup") == null)
    {
        // Create Document Type "falmHKCacheCleanup"
        var createNewDocumentType = new ContentType(dtFalmContainer.Id)
            {
                Alias = "falmHKCacheCleanup",
                Name = "FALM Housekeeping - Cache Directory Cleanup",
                AllowedAsRoot = false,
                Icon = "icon-trash color-orange"
            };

            contentTypeService.Save(createNewDocumentType);

            Logger.Info<string>("FALM Housekeeping - Document Type 'FALM Housekeeping - Cache Directory Cleanup' successfully created");
        }
        else
        {
            Logger.Info<string>("FALM Housekeeping - Document Type 'FALM Housekeeping - Cache Directory Cleanup' already exist");
        }

The problem is that in the VS2019 "Error List" panel I receive this error:

'IContentTypeService' does not contain a definition for 'GetContentType' and no accessible extension method 'GetContentType' accepting a first argument of type 'IContentTypeService' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

I tried to search a solution but I didn't find it.

Can anyone help me? Thank you very much

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Rhys Hamilton 140 posts 942 karma points

Jun 28, 2019 @ 13:32

You could use the GetAllContentTypeAliases() method to retrieve all of the existing content type aliases, then check if it contains the alias falmHKCacheCleanup.

Something like the following should work:

var contentTypeService = Current.Services.ContentTypeService;
var contentService = Current.Services.ContentService;

// Get all content types
var contentTypes = contentTypeService.GetAllContentTypeAliases();

// If the alias does not exist, create docType
if (!contentTypes.Contains("falmHKCacheCleanup"))
{
    // Create Document Type "falmHKCacheCleanup"
    var createNewDocumentType = new ContentType(dtFalmContainer.Id)
    {
        Alias = "falmHKCacheCleanup",
        Name = "FALM Housekeeping - Cache Directory Cleanup",
        AllowedAsRoot = false,
        Icon = "icon-trash color-orange"
    };

    contentTypeService.Save(createNewDocumentType);

    Logger.Info<string>("FALM Housekeeping - Document Type 'FALM Housekeeping - Cache Directory Cleanup' successfully created");
}
else
{
    Logger.Info<string>("FALM Housekeeping - Document Type 'FALM Housekeeping - Cache Directory Cleanup' already exist");
}

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Adriano Fabri 459 posts 1602 karma points

Jul 11, 2019 @ 09:14

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Thank you, it works like a charme!!!

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