Hi MB,

If you have the PublishedPropertyType, then you can search the PropertyValueConverters collection for it.

Here's a quick snippet of how you could do it...

// however you get the `propertyType`?

var converter = Current.PropertyValueConverters.FirstOrDefault(x => x..IsConverter(propertyType) == true);
if (converter != null)
{
    // do your thang!
}

Note, using Umbraco.Core.Composing.Current really depends on where/how you are coding this. If it's in a controller, then you're better using Dependency Injection - injecting the PropertyValueConverterCollection instance instead.

(If you'd like more info about Dependency Injection in Umbraco, there are details in the docs: https://our.umbraco.com/documentation/reference/using-ioc/)

Hope this helps?

Cheers,
- Lee

Thanks - that's definitely advanced my cause a bit - using IsConverter(type) to find the matching Converter is on the track of what I'm trying to achieve - but I'm needing to do this for Umbraco-v7.

I suspect I could do something similar using:

PropertyValueConvertersResolver.Current.Converters.FirstOrDefault(x => x.IsConverter(publishedPropertyType))

However, IsConverter() requires a PublishedPropertyType, and I currently only have a PropertyType and its Alias which I fetched using the ContentTypeService - not sure how to get from the PropertyType to the PublishedPropertyType

Hi MB,

It's been a while since I'd looked at v7's APIs, trying to recall how we did this for the original Nested Content package - found some bits and pieces.

To get the PublishedPropertyType, you first need the PublishedContentType, which you can do as follows...

var publishedContentType = PublishedContentType.Get(PublishedItemType.Content, contentTypeAlias);

For reference, I'd copied from Nested Content code: https://github.com/umbraco/Umbraco-CMS/blob/release-7.15.6/src/Umbraco.Web/PropertyEditors/ValueConverters/NestedContentPublishedPropertyTypeExtensions.cs#L65

Then from there, you can get the PublishedPropertyType...

var publishedPropertyType = publishedContentType.GetPropertyType(propertyAlias);

For reference, I'd copied from Nested Content code: https://github.com/umbraco/Umbraco-CMS/blob/release-7.15.6/src/Umbraco.Web/PropertyEditors/ValueConverters/NestedContentPublishedPropertyTypeExtensions.cs#L76

Once you have the publishedPropertyType, then you can find out the value converter for it.

Hope this helps?

Cheers,
- Lee

Cheers, that helped a lot, and I got to where I wanted to be, only to hit a problem that requires me to go and re-think this thing.

Basically, I was building a custom backoffice tool to list the property editors on a known composition, and the valuetypes they return. I was working my way towards using GetPropertyValueType(PublishedPropertyType) of the PropertyValueConverter as it seemed to be documented as an interface method, but that was a no-go. So I then dug into the API docs, and it seems that's not actually the case (not sure why the discrepancy) so I can't use that approach to find the converted type ...this needs some more thought.

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