Interface IAsset

Describes an ADAM (Automatic Digital Asset Management) asset.
This contains properties which both IFolder and IFile have in common.

[PublicApi]
public interface IAsset : IHasMetadata

Properties

Informs the code if this asset has real metadata attached or not.

bool HasMetadata { get; }

bool: True if this asset has metadata, false if it doesn't (in which case the Metadata property still works, but won't deliver any real values)

List of metadata items - will automatically contain a fake item, even if no metadata exits to help in razor template etc.

IMetadata Metadata { get; }

IMetadata: An IDynamicEntity which contains the metadata, or an empty IDynamicEntity which still works if no metadata exists.

The type of this asset (folder, file, etc.)

string Type { get; }

The path to this asset as used from external access. Must be a full url beginning with a "/" like "/Portals/0/adam/..."

string Url { get; }