I've been Following this post To get my head around Lazy field of T, Which I think I understand, But I'm having trouble getting associated Field Data for a Part loaded this way
Aim - To show photo of blog post author on a blog post.
For the first part I have created the content type and used the lazy Filed of UserPart to get the username. However when I try and get the associated fields for the UserPart. There dosent seem to be any.
public class ContentAuthorRecord : ContentPartRecord
{
public virtual string AuthorEmail { get; set; }
}
public class ContentAuthorPart : ContentPart<ContentAuthorRecord>
{
internal readonly LazyField<UserPart> Owner = new LazyField<UserPart>();
public string AuthorEmail
{
get { return Record.AuthorEmail; }
set { Record.AuthorEmail = value; }
}
public UserPart Author
{
get { return Owner.Value; }
set { Owner.Value = value; }
}
public string AuthorName
{
get
{
if (Author == null)
return "Riders for health";
else
{
return Author.UserName;
}
}
}
}
public class ContentAuthorHandler :ContentHandler
{
private readonly IContentManager _contentManager;
public ContentAuthorHandler(IRepository<ContentAuthorRecord> repository, IContentManager contentManager)
{
_contentManager = contentManager;
OnActivated<ContentAuthorPart>(SetUpCustomPart);
Filters.Add(StorageFilter.For(repository));
}
private void SetUpCustomPart(ActivatedContentContext content, ContentAuthorPart part)
{
// Setup the getter of the lazy field
part.Owner.Loader(() => _contentManager.Query<UserPart, UserPartRecord>().List().FirstOrDefault(x => x.Email == part.AuthorEmail));
}
}
I would expect to be able to access the field with something like
(ImageUploadField.Fields.ImageUploadField)Author.Fields.FirstOrDefault(x => x.Name == "Photo");
form the within the part class
( although this makes every thing a bit brittle, hard coding a field name, but I'm not sure how eles to go about it)
Further Info
I have a HeaderPart with a Image field added via the cms (not in code) in the display handler I fetch the field like this
protected override DriverResult Display(HeaderPart part, string displayType, dynamic shapeHelper)
{
if (part.HeaderType == HeaderType.Full_width_hero_image)
{
var field = (ImageUploadField) part.Fields.FirstOrDefault(f => f.Name == "HeaderImage");
if (field != null)
{
return ContentShape("Parts_Header_ImageHero",
() => shapeHelper.Parts_Header_ImageHero(ImagePath: field.ImagePath, ImageTitle: field.FileName));
}
return null;
}
if (part.HeaderType == HeaderType.Full_width_hero_video)
{
return ContentShape("Parts_Header_VideoHero", () => shapeHelper.Parts_Header_VideoHero(VideoUrl: part.VideoUrl));
}
if (part.HeaderType == HeaderType.Body_width_video)
{
return ContentShape("Parts_Header_VideoBody", () => shapeHelper.Parts_Header_VideoBody(VideoUrl: part.VideoUrl));
}
return null;
}
This works, But I can do the same for a part loaded into a lazy field.
If you have added the fields to the User content type via the CMS interface, it may have added the fields to a different part to the one you expect. If you are adding fields to the User content type, by default it will have added the fields to a new part called 'User', not 'UserPart'. Try to following to search all parts in the content item:
(ImageUploadField.Fields.ImageUploadField)Author.ContentItem.Parts
.SelectMany(p => p.Fields).FirstOrDefault(f => f.Name == "Photo");
or directly from the 'User' part:
(ImageUploadField.Fields.ImageUploadField)Author.ContentItem.Parts
.First(p => p.PartDefinition.Name == p.ContentItem.ContentType).Fields
.FirstOrDefault(f => f.Name == "Photo");