Hi David,

do you have a class of NewsItem in your project? As in theory that code should work like that.

What ist the actual issue you have?

Regards David

In a word “No”. I think I’m a bit further along and I’m going to try creating the class and inheriting from IPublishedContent and a few other classes.

My main problem is that I’m a C++ and other stuff programmer and don’t have much experience with .net, C#, etc, etc

Try inheriting from "PublishedContentModel". Thats easier to implement as the actual interface.

Hi,

I sorted out the import from Json in to a PublishedContentModel by creating a classes and using the with the [JsonProperty("XXXX")] method. This worked very well and imports the data.

My challenge now is that the Umbraco Properties helper methods (HasProperty, GetPropertyValue, etc, etc) don't work. I think this is because the "values" aren't stored as properties their stored as variables within the class. I can't add them to the Umbraco property variable as my code only has read access to this.

I've tried changing the definition of, in the below example "Summary", to have a get and set using the property variable

public string Summary { 
get { return this.GetPropertyValue<string>("header"); }
set { return this.GetProperty.Value("header", value); }
 }

But with no success as GetProperty returns a read only object.

Any help?

        [PublishedContentModel("newsItem")]
        public partial class newsItem : PublishedContentModel
        {
    #pragma warning disable 0109 // new is redundant
            public new const string ModelTypeAlias = "newsItem";
            public new const PublishedItemType ModelItemType = PublishedItemType.Content;
    #pragma warning restore 0109

            public NewsItem(IPublishedContent content)
                : base(content) {}

    #pragma warning disable 0109 // new is redundant
            public new static PublishedContentType GetModelContentType()
            {
                return PublishedContentType.Get(ModelItemType, ModelTypeAlias);
            }
    #pragma warning restore 0109

            public static PublishedPropertyType GetModelPropertyType<TValue>(Expression<Func<NewsItem, TValue>> selector)
            {
                return PublishedContentModelUtility.GetModelPropertyType(GetModelContentType(), selector);
            }

            [ImplementPropertyType("Summary")]
            [JsonProperty("description")]
            public string Summary { get; set; }

            // More properties....
        }

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