Hi!

I find your package very useful and I used it with almost all my apps, but I had an issue using it with umbraco cloud (v7).

I noticed that in the json stored in the db there's a property called "dataTypeId", used to retrieve the configuration of the umbraco's datatype.

I don't know if it's normal behaviour, but the ids of the datatypes are different between each environments on the cloud, the guids are the same instead.

So I played a bit with the source code and I've added another prop "dataTypeGuid", used to retrieve the datatype information instead of the "dataTypeId"

It's a fix, but it seems work well for now.

FILE: SectionApiController.cs

Add a new method "AddGuidToObject"

private void AddGuidToObject(JObject data)
{
    if (data != null)
    {
        JToken groups;
        if (data.TryGetValue("groups", out groups))
        {
            foreach (var group in groups)
            {
                var properties = group.Value<JArray>("properties");
                if (properties != null)
                {
                    foreach (var property in properties)
                    {

                        var dataTypeDefinition =
                            Services.DataTypeService.GetDataTypeDefinitionById(property.Value<int>("dataTypeId"));
                        property["dataTypeGuid"] = dataTypeDefinition.Key;
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

Edit the foreach inside the "AddSomeProperiesToObject"

foreach (var property in properties)
{
    //edited code - START
    IDataTypeDefinition dataTypeDefinition = null;
    if (property.Value<string>("dataTypeGuid") == null)
    {
        dataTypeDefinition =
       Services.DataTypeService.GetDataTypeDefinitionById(property.Value<int>("dataTypeId"));
    }
    else
    {
        dataTypeDefinition =
        Services.DataTypeService.GetDataTypeDefinitionById(Guid.Parse(property.Value<string>("dataTypeGuid")));
        property["dataTypeId"] = dataTypeDefinition.Id;
    }
    //edited code - END

    var propEditor =
        PropertyEditorResolver.Current.GetByAlias(dataTypeDefinition.PropertyEditorAlias);
    property["editor"] = propEditor?.Alias;
    property["view"] = propEditor?.ValueEditor?.View;
    property["dataTypeName"] = dataTypeDefinition.Name;

    var dataTypeDisplay =
        Mapper.Map<IDataTypeDefinition, Umbraco.Web.Models.ContentEditing.DataTypeDisplay>(
            dataTypeDefinition);
    var configDictionairy = dataTypeDisplay.PreValues.ToDictionary(pv => pv.Key, pv => pv.Value);
    AddIdTypeForSomeProperies(configDictionairy, dataTypeDefinition.PropertyEditorAlias);
    property["config"] = JObject.FromObject(configDictionairy);
}

Call the "AddGuidToObject" inside the "SaveData"

public HttpResponseMessage SaveData(JObject model)
{
    IEnumerable<string> result;
    if (!_services.ValidationService.IsValid(model, out result))
    {
        return Request.CreateNotificationValidationErrorResponse(string.Join(",", result));
    }

    //new call
    AddGuidToObject(model);


    var entity = _services.StorageService.Save(model);
    return entity != null
        ? Request.CreateResponse(HttpStatusCode.OK, entity.Value<string>("id"))
        : Request.CreateErrorResponse(HttpStatusCode.BadRequest, "An error occurred while trying to save data");
}

Thank you for your work, I hope my suggestion can be useful :D

S