Thanks for the quick reply Jeroen.

Is there a DAMP helper like Umbraco.TypedMedia?  In my case it made more sense to do

            var imageId = node.GetPropertyValue<string>(propertyAlias, recursive, null)

and cast it to a media item as follows

            var image = new UmbracoHelper(UmbracoContext.Current).TypedMedia(imageId);

In this situation I did not need crops but would be nice to cast to be able to cast to a DAMP object from a media ID.

Just to follow up, there was one snag with my code above . I needed to cast the imageId to an int first, to prevent the DAMP property editor value converter from running:

var imageId = node.GetPropertyValue(propertyAlias, recursive, 0);

Only then would the TypedMedia call work.

Hi Jeroen,

do you know how can I convert Dynamic XML to Damp Model? (using umbraco 6.1.5)

the problem is when I do this page.GetPropertyValue("image",true,null) it returns an object which is dynamic xml and now I need to convert it do damp model?

Cheers

Ali

Hello,

I need some more code to see how it currently works before I can help you. Can you paste the page where you are using that part?

Jeroen

the problem is this http://issues.umbraco.org/issue/U4-1958.

so I cannot use GetPropertyValue<DampModel>("image", true, null)

and in your comment above you mentioned that

"Currently the only workaround is to first find the node you are looking for and do .GetPropertyValue

my question is how to get that node?

the only way I know is to do CurrentPage.GetPropertyValue("image",true) but this returns dynamic XML of the image :

<DAMP><mediaItem><Image id="3694" version="b4c57f37-b833-44e0-b2f2-14f83bec3005" parentID="1078" level="2" writerID="0" nodeType="1032" template="0" sortOrder="30" createDate="2014-03-24T14:18:28" updateDate="2014-03-26T11:50:58" nodeName="header-right-hand" urlName="header-right-hand" writerName="abv" nodeTypeAlias="Image" path="-1,1078,3694">
                <umbracoFile>/media/1202/header-right-hand.jpg</umbracoFile>
                <umbracoWidth>1120</umbracoWidth>
                <umbracoHeight>480</umbracoHeight>
                <umbracoBytes>197676</umbracoBytes>
                <umbracoExtension>jpg</umbracoExtension>
                <altText />
              </Image>
            </mediaItem></DAMP>

so the quesiton is how to convert this into DampItem or DAMP.PropertyEditorValueConverter.Model

I hope this makes sense. I dont have much code to paste here than above.

Two solutions for you:

1. Upgrade to Umbraco 6.2RC or 7
2. Do something like the below:

Snippet

@{
    var mapImage = Model.Content.AncestorsOrSelf().Where(x => x.HasProperty("mapImage") && x.HasValue("mapImage")).FirstOrDefault();
    if (mapImage != null){

        <div class="maplink-map" style="background-image: url(@(mapImage.GetPropertyValue<DampModel>("mapImage").First.Url))"> </div>
    }
}

thank you so much Jeavon, the snippet is exactly what I needed

Cheers

Ali

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