Hi all,

I am currently working through Ismail Mayat's excellent tutorial relating to massaging data before including it in your examine index.

http://thecogworks.co.uk/blog/posts/2012/november/examiness-hints-and-tips-from-the-trenches-part-2/

One major shortcoming of Umbraco I find is that information such as the culture of a page is not easily obtainable unless you are using an IpublishedContent object and the GetCulture method. So, my idea was to add to my examine index a culture indicator so I could use this for processing my examine results when I run a search.

My question is, how would I access the Umbraco.TypedContent() method in my class that inherits ApplicationBase?

I've included all of the relevant using statements that I would normally add but I don't seem to be able to access this method.

My code can be found below:

using Examine;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using umbraco.BusinessLogic;
using Umbraco.Core;
using Umbraco.Core.Models;
using Umbraco.Core.Services;
using Umbraco.Web.WebApi;
using Umbraco.Web;

namespace Project.App_Code.Examine_Extensions
{
    public class ExamineEvents : ApplicationBase
    {
        public ExamineEvents()
        {
            ExamineManager.Instance.IndexProviderCollection["ToursIndexer"].GatheringNodeData += ExamineEvents_GatheringNodeData;
        }

        void ExamineEvents_GatheringNodeData(object sender, IndexingNodeDataEventArgs e)
        {
            AddToContentsField(e);
        }

        private void AddToContentsField(IndexingNodeDataEventArgs e)
        {
            var fields = e.Fields;
            string value = string.Empty;
            fields.TryGetValue("id", out value);
            if (value != string.Empty)
            {
                // run umbraco.TypedContent(value)
            }
        }
    }
}

What I am trying to do is when a page is saved, I will use its node id from the index and then try and convert this to an Ipublished content object so that I can run the GetCulture() method on it then inject this as a new field in my index. If this is not possible, what is the alternative?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.