Hi Guys,

This is my really hacky temporary fix until I get some help from someone who knows how to do this the correct way.

I think that I need to import/use something or perhaps describe the TerraType model in some way, but when I use the model from the excellent documentation, I have lots of errors. I'm sure that this is because my code is in the App_Code folder and not within a view.

Please help! :)

Cheers, Splinx

private string GetCoordinates(object terraTypeMap)
            {
                Type t = terraTypeMap.GetType();
                PropertyInfo[] pia = t.GetProperties();
                //string message = "";
                foreach (PropertyInfo b in pia)
                {
                    if (b.Name == "Position")
                    {
                        return b.GetValue(terraTypeMap).ToString();
                    }
                    //message += String.Format("Name : {0}, Value : {1}\r\n", b.Name, b.GetValue(coords, null));
                }

                return null;
            }

Hey,

What errors are you getting?

Matt

Hey Matt,

The code I am upgrading previoulsy had a line like this:

maplocation = GetCoordinates(o.GetPropertyValue("officeLocation"))

Where o is an item from:

 IEnumerable<IPublishedContent> allOffices = umbracoHelper
.TypedContentAtRoot()
.SelectMany(root => root.Descendants())
.Where(x => x.DocumentTypeAlias == "OfficeDocType")
.ToList();

So, you see, this code would have pulled back the simple coordinates previously from the Google Angular Maps.

With the new TerraType map object, these values (amongst many other useful pieces of data) are all hidden within properties of the object.

The trouble is, I do not understand how to get at them because my code simply doesn't understand what the TerraType object is :(

I have tried using syntax from the documentation and other coders posts but everything I try fails simple because I don't have access to content.Model and the Terratype object.

I basically want to know what the syntax is (and any using statements) required to get at the properties here:

Please accept my apologies in advance if I'm just being an idiot ;)

Cheers, Splinx

This should return the correct model.

o.GetPropertyValue<Terratype.Models.Model>("officeLocation")

Also one side note is

 IEnumerable<IPublishedContent> allOffices = umbracoHelper
.TypedContentAtRoot()
.SelectMany(root => root.Descendants())
.Where(x => x.DocumentTypeAlias == "OfficeDocType")
.ToList();

could be faster using

 IEnumerable<IPublishedContent> allOffices = umbracoHelper
.TypedContentAtXpath("//OfficeDocType") .ToList();

Using Descendants is an expensive call on as it loads the whole site into memory whereas the above uses XPath and only loads the resulting OfficeDocType

Hope this helps

Matt

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