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Cast ContentItem to the strongly type

I'm building a site using Kentico Cloud with .Net SDK providing search functionality using the Lucene.Net to store index items.

I would like to create strongly typed model from DeliveryClient.ContentItem in the search implementation.

I have implemented the like that:

var result = await client.GetItemAsync("home");
var item = result.Item; // ContentItem
// ToObject is my own implementation that does the conversion
return item?.ToObject(CustomTypeProvider.GetType(item?.system?.type));

I would much rather use a built-in method to get the strongly typed model than having to use a switch that needs to be updated whenever I add new content types (To The ToObject method).

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Solution

  • Use ContentItem.CastTo<object>() method (or DeliveryItemResponse.CastTo<object>() / DeliveryItemListingResponse.CastTo<object>()) method with object as a generics.

    Example with ContentItem.CastTo() method

    var result = await client.GetItemAsync("home");
var item = result.Item; // ContentItem
return item?.CastTo<object>() // Automatically converts to the desired strongly content type

    Example with ContentItemResponse.CastTo method ContentItemResponse example