Hi Urvish,

Sure, you can use Ditto the same way within your controller code...

public override ActionResult Index(RenderModel model)
{
    var poco = model.Content.As<MyTextPage>();

    // do something with your POCO
    // poco.Title

    return CurrentTemplate(poco);
}

Cheers,
- Lee

Thanks Lee for the reply. And sorry for the late reply.

My question is that.

1) Is it compulsory to use (RenderModel model) as parameters?

2) Can we have pre defined valued which we have filled in the content page in that var poco.

For eg, I have created 3 property bodyText , title , image. And created one content page of that document type and filled all the value. So , can we get that values like poco.title , poco.bodyText , poco.image in the controller ?

And also we need to create that properties in our MyTextPage class? or it will take automatic properties ?

Regards,

Urvish Mandaliya

Thanks Lee for the reply.

Yes it helps a lot.

"pre defined valued" means the values which I have entered in content page.

So can I get that value of title 'Test' and other value like this. poco.title = "Test" , poco.bodyText ="" etc.

Regards,

Urvish Mandaliya

Hi Urvish,

Yes, absolutely - the values from the content node will populate the POCO properties. (That's the entire goal of Ditto!)

Cheers,
- Lee

Thanks a lot Lee for your support.

I appreciate your help and support.

I need to check from my self that what I am missing? Because I am not getting values from that poco properties.

Thanks again.:)

Regards,

Urvish Mandaliya

I'd need to see some of your code if I can help to spot any issues.

Maybe take a watch of the uHangout video I did about Ditto - here's a link to about 20 mins into the video where I show the demo:
https://youtu.be/L40haIBLNS4?t=1040

Cheers,
- Lee

ok thanks Lee.

Sure will let you know if I stuck up while implementing this.

Regards,

Urvish Mandaliya

Hi Lee,

my question is how to use var poco = model.Content.As<MyTextPage>(); without using RenderModel and RendeMvcController

 public class myController : Controller   // <- this is possible or not? or always use RendeMvcController ?
 {

    public override ActionResult Index() // <- below code is possible without RenderModel ? 
    {
        var poco = model.Content.As<MyTextPage>();



        return CurrentTemplate(poco);
    }

}

Kindly advice on this

Thanks in advance

Regards,

Mehul Gajjar.

Hi Mehul,

This question isn't really about Ditto, it's about how to access content within your own MVC controller.

Is there a reason why you can't inherit from UmbracoController?

Thanks,
- Lee

Hi Lee, Thanks for prompt reply ,

i have now inherit control with RenderMvcController. and its working fine.

but facing issue while i have set custom routing.

Problem : Render model get null in controller via custom routing . see below.

1) below is my star up handler

public class MyStartupHandler : ApplicationEventHandler
{
    protected override void ApplicationStarting(UmbracoApplicationBase umbracoApplication, ApplicationContext applicationContext)
    {
        DefaultRenderMvcControllerResolver.Current.SetDefaultControllerType(typeof(umbNewsOverviewController));

        RouteTable.Routes.MapRoute(
         name: "TestNews",
          url: "TestNews/{*catchall}",
          defaults: new { controller = "umbNewsOverview", action = "Index" }
        );

        base.ApplicationStarting(umbracoApplication, applicationContext);
    }
}

2) controller

public class umbNewsOverviewController : RenderMvcController
    {
       public override ActionResult Index(RenderModel model)
        {

            return base.Index(model);

        }

    }

case 1) When i visit the page using this url http://localhost:63247/new i got value in RenderModel

case 2) When i visit the page using this url http://localhost:63247/TestNews i got Null value in RenderModel

please give some suggestion how to get value in RenderModel in case 2 using custom route.

Thanks for your help.

Regards

Mehul.

Hi Mehul,

With the given routes, what content are you expecting to get in "/TestNews"?

Does this URL correspond with a node in Umbraco? If not, then you can use the UmbracoHelper (RenderMvcController has it as a property called Umbraco) ... so you can use any of the helper methods to get the node.

e.g.

var node = Umbraco.TypedById(1234);

Hi Lee ,

Many Thanks for reply

I will try with above

Regards,

Mehul.

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