querying the contents of multinodetreepicker2

Doogie Talons 183 posts 318 karma points

Jan 29, 2020 @ 14:50

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I am starting this question again as I seem to have made the last thread tottaly unreadable.

I am trying to query a multinodetreepicker2 element from a page.

I am trying to get all products that contain a given category id from a multinodetreepicker2 object within the product.

I have tried two approaches to no effect, well an effect but normally a yellow screen.

I am hard coding in a categoryNode for testing.

One option was...

productSelection = Model.Content.Site()
                                 .FirstChild("primaryBoutique")
                                 .FirstChild("boutiqueProducts")
                                 .Children("boutiqueProduct")
                 .Where(x => x.IsVisible() && x.GetPropertyValue<IEnumerable<string>>("categoryList").Contains("1127"));

categoryList is a multinodetreepicker2 which in this case definatley contains the 1127 node picked. I get the error message.

[ArgumentNullException: Value cannot be null. Parameter name: source]

There is only one product published and it has the 1127 picked.

The other option which kind of works... although not really is this.

productSelection = startNode
                                 .Children("boutiqueProduct")
                .Where("visible")
                .Where("@categoryList.ToString().Contains(@0)", "1127");

This fires but returns no results, so I removed the filter and checked the properties of categoryList it returned.

System.Collections.Generic.List`1[Umbraco.Core.Models.IPublishedContent]

So on a whim I changed the code to

productSelection = startNode
                                     .Children("boutiqueProduct")
                    .Where("visible")
                    .Where("@categoryList.ToString().Contains(@0)", "System");

Which returned the published product, leading me to believe the query is not querying the contents of categoryList more its value as a string, so is there a way to rewrite either query to read the categories selected inside categoryList rather than it's actual object type.

Regards

Doogie

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Alex Skrypnyk 6132 posts 23951 karma points MVP 7x admin c-trib

Jan 29, 2020 @ 15:30

Hi

Try this code:

var productSelection = startNode
        .Children().Where(x => x.DocumentTypeAlias.Equals("boutiqueProduct") && x.GetPropertyValue<bool>("visible") && x.GetPropertyValue<string>("categoryList").Contains("1127"));

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Doogie Talons 183 posts 318 karma points

Jan 29, 2020 @ 15:57

If I put your line in the first example.

var productSelection = Model.Content.Site()
                       .FirstChild("primaryBoutique")
                       .FirstChild("boutiqueProducts")
                       .Children()
                       .Where(x => x.DocumentTypeAlias.Equals("boutiqueProduct") && x.GetPropertyValue<bool>("visible") && x.GetPropertyValue<string>("categoryList").Contains("1127"));

It does not crash or give me the null error but returns nothing.

If I put it in the second option.
var startNode = Umbraco.Content(1169);
var productSelection = startNode
                       .Children("boutiqueProduct")
                       .Where("visible")
                       .Children()
                       .Where(x => x.DocumentTypeAlias.Equals("boutiqueProduct") && x.GetPropertyValue<bool>("visible") && x.GetPropertyValue<string>("categoryList").Contains("1127"));

I get the error

Cannot use a lambda expression as an argument to a dynamically dispatched operation without first casting it to a delegate or expression tree type.

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Alex Skrypnyk 6132 posts 23951 karma points MVP 7x admin c-trib

Jan 29, 2020 @ 16:01

Use strongly typed objects:

var startNode = Umbraco.TypedContent(1169);

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Alex Skrypnyk 6132 posts 23951 karma points MVP 7x admin c-trib

Jan 29, 2020 @ 16:02

    var startNode = Umbraco.TypedContent(1169);
    var productSelection = startNode.Children
        .Where(x => x.DocumentTypeAlias.Equals("boutiqueProduct") && x.GetPropertyValue<string>("categoryList").Contains("1127"));

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Doogie Talons 183 posts 318 karma points

Jan 29, 2020 @ 16:22

Ok if I do...

var startNode = Umbraco.TypedContent(1169);
var productSelection = startNode.Children()
                       .Where(x => x.GetPropertyValue<bool>("visible") && x.DocumentTypeAlias.Equals("boutiqueProduct"));

Nothing returns at all but it doesn't crash.

If I do...

var startNode = Umbraco.TypedContent(1169);
var productSelection = startNode.Children()
                       .Where(x => x.IsVisible() && x.DocumentTypeAlias.Equals("boutiqueProduct"));

It returns all published products, as expected.

If I do

var startNode = Umbraco.TypedContent(1169);
var productSelection = startNode.Children()
                       .Where(x => x.IsVisible() && x.DocumentTypeAlias.Equals("boutiqueProduct") && x.GetPropertyValue<string>("categoryList").Contains("1127"));

It doesn't crash but returns nothing.

If I do...

var startNode = Umbraco.TypedContent(1169);
var productSelection = startNode.Children()
                       .Where(x => x.IsVisible() && x.DocumentTypeAlias.Equals("boutiqueProduct") && x.GetPropertyValue<string>("categoryList").Contains("System"));

It returns all products.

If I render...

@productV.GetPropertyValue("categoryList").ToString()

after calling the products it returns...

System.Collections.Generic.List`1[Umbraco.Core.Models.IPublishedContent]

Which makes me think that the object type is being queried rather than it's contents.

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Alex Skrypnyk 6132 posts 23951 karma points MVP 7x admin c-trib

Jan 29, 2020 @ 16:32

Try this

var startNode = Umbraco.TypedContent(1169);
    var productSelection = startNode.Children()
        .Where(x => x.IsVisible() && x.DocumentTypeAlias.Equals("boutiqueProduct") && x.GetPropertyValue<IEnumerable<IPublishedContent>>("categoryList").FirstOrDefault(category => category.Id == 1127) != null);

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Doogie Talons 183 posts 318 karma points

Jan 29, 2020 @ 16:48

Cool that works.

So at the moment I am hard coding in the categoryId I will want to pass that as a varaible from the id of the page I am on, I guess I will have to convert it to an int along the way ?

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Alex Skrypnyk 6132 posts 23951 karma points MVP 7x admin c-trib

Jan 29, 2020 @ 17:01

yes, it's int already - just replace it with real id

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Doogie Talons 183 posts 318 karma points

Jan 29, 2020 @ 17:09

Cool I am passing it as a query to an ajax function so it arrives as a string. I can parse the string to an int then call it like..

int categoryId;
if(int.TryParse(Request["catId"], out categoryId))
{

}
else
{
   categoryId  = 0;
}

var productSelection = startNode.Children
                       .Where(x => x.IsVisible() && x.DocumentTypeAlias.Equals("boutiqueProduct") && x.GetPropertyValue<IEnumerable<IPublishedContent>>("categoryList").FirstOrDefault(category => category.Id == categoryId) != null)

I can't seem to mark your reply as solution :)

And thank you very much for your time.

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Alex Skrypnyk 6132 posts 23951 karma points MVP 7x admin c-trib

Jan 29, 2020 @ 17:14

You are always welcome, happy to help.

Did you mention that category is a current page in Umbraco? If so, you can use currentPage like that:

var productSelection = startNode.Children
    .Where(x => x.IsVisible() && x.DocumentTypeAlias.Equals("boutiqueProduct") && x.GetPropertyValue<IEnumerable<IPublishedContent>>("categoryList").FirstOrDefault(category => category.Id == Umbraco.AssignedContentItem.Id) != null)

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Alex Skrypnyk 6132 posts 23951 karma points MVP 7x admin c-trib

Jan 29, 2020 @ 17:14

Umbraco.AssignedContentItem is an easiest way to get the current node.

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Doogie Talons 183 posts 318 karma points

Jan 29, 2020 @ 17:16

Yeah it's the current page, but I pass the ID to an ajax function on another page to render it's contents so I send as query string along with the number of items to render, then a show more button to load more etc.

Thanks again.

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