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Interface IDynamicEntity

Namespace
ToSic.Sxc.Data
Assembly
ToSic.Sxc.Data.dll

This is an older dynamic wrapper for IEntity objects. It provides dynamic access to underlying properties.

[PublicApi]
public interface IDynamicEntity : IHasDecorators<IEntity>, IMultiWrapper<IEntity>, ICanDebug
Inherited Members

Remarks

It provides nicer access to underlying properties and automatically handles things like multi-language etc. The underlying IEntity IEntity is in the Entity property.

This is an older way to work with entities and not recommended anymore. You should use a newer base class such as `RazorTyped`, there Dynamic objects are not used anymore.

Normally you will use it without caring about these internals.
Please check @HowTo.DynamicCode.DynamicEntity

Properties

AnyProperty

A Dynamic Entity always contains an item of your data - a book, person, blog-post or a piece of content. Since the object is dynamic, you can just use .IsFemale or whatever other property your item has. It is treated as a dynamic so you can just output it, or cast it to the expected type.

dynamic? AnyProperty { get; }

Property Value

dynamic

EntityGuid

The guid of the underlying entity.

Guid EntityGuid { get; }

Property Value

Guid

Remarks

If the entity doesn't exist, it will return an empty guid

EntityId

The ID of the underlying entity. Use it for edit-functionality or just to have a unique number for this item.

int EntityId { get; }

Property Value

int

Remarks

If the entity doesn't exist, it will return 0

EntityTitle

The title of this item. This is always available no matter what the underlying field for the title is.

string? EntityTitle { get; }

Property Value

string

The title of the underlying entity. In rare cases where no title-field is known, it can be null. It can also be null if there is no underlying entity.

Remarks

This returns a string which is usually what's expected. In previous versions (before v15) 2sxc it returned an object.

EntityType

The type name of the current entity. This provides the nice name like "Person" and not the technical internal StaticName

string? EntityType { get; }

Property Value

string

IsDemoItem

Many templates show demo data. If the template code must know if it's the demo item or real data, use .IsDemoItem.

bool IsDemoItem { get; }

Property Value

bool

True if this is the item configured in the view-settings, false if not.

Remarks

New in 10.07 on IDynamicEntity, new in 16.02 on ITypedEntity

IsPublished

Tells us if this data item is published or still draft. Default is true.

bool IsPublished { get; }

Property Value

bool

Metadata

The type name of the current entity. This provides the nice name like "Person" and not the technical internal StaticName

dynamic Metadata { get; }

Property Value

dynamic

Remarks

  • Added in v13
  • Changed type name to IMetadata from IDynamicMetadata in 16.02; same type, different type name
  • Changed type to dynamic in v20 since we believe all use cases in the wild always use dynamic access.

Presentation

Contains presentation settings for an item - if they exist. This is a functionality of the CMS, where an instance of an item can be configured to show in a specific way. Normally it's used when something like an address has various show-settings (like how the map should visualize this address). The presentation-info is therefor not-null IF

  • the content belongs to this module instance
  • the view-configuration of this module is configured to have presentation items
  • there is either a default presentation configured in the view, or the user has manually edited the presentation settings
dynamic? Presentation { get; }

Property Value

dynamic

An IDynamicEntity with the presentation item (or the demo-presentation), otherwise null.

Methods

Children(string?, string?)

A dynamic list of sub-items. Important for LINQ style querying or just working with various lists. Note that for getting child items of this item you can just use the properties, like content.Authors.
But using Children("Authors", typeName) gives you the ability to restrict to a type.
Please check the tutorials on 2sxc.org/dnn-tutorials/ for more info.

List<IDynamicEntity?> Children(string? field = null, string? type = null)

Parameters

field string

Optional field filter - would only return items that point to the current item in a specific field name.

type string

Optional type filter - would only return items of this type.

Returns

List<IDynamicEntity>

A list of all items pointing here (filtered), converted to DynamicEntity for convenience.

Remarks

New in 10.21.00 - note also that the parameter-order is reversed to the Parents()

Field(string)

Get a Field-object of a property of this entity, to use with services like the IImageService which also need more information like the metadata.

IField? Field(string name)

Parameters

name string

Returns

IField

Remarks

History: Added in v13.10

Get(string)

Get a value of the entity. Usually you will prefer the quick access like @content.FirstName - which will give you the same things as content.Get("FirstName"). There are two cases to use this:

  • when you dynamically assemble the field name in your code, like when using App.Resources or similar use cases.
  • to access a field which has a conflicting name with this object, like Get("Parents")
dynamic? Get(string name)

Parameters

name string

Returns

dynamic

An object which can be either a string, number, boolean or List<IDynamicEntity>, depending on the field type. Will return null if the field was not found.

Get(string, NoParamOrder, string?, bool, bool?)

Get a property using the string name. Only needed in special situations, as most cases can use the object.name directly

dynamic? Get(string name, NoParamOrder noParamOrder = default, string? language = null, bool convertLinks = true, bool? debug = null)

Parameters

name string

the property name like Image - or path like Author.Name (new v15)

noParamOrder NoParamOrder

see Convention: Named Parameters

language string

Optional language code - like "de-ch" to prioritize that language

convertLinks bool

Optionally turn off if links like file:72 are looked up to a real link. Default is true.

debug bool?

Set true to see more details in Insights how the value was retrieved.

Returns

dynamic

a dynamically typed result, can be string, bool, etc.

GetDraft()

Get the draft item of this item if this is a content-item which is published, and has a draft.

dynamic? GetDraft()

Returns

dynamic

Returns a dynamic entity if there is a draft, or null if there is no draft.

GetPublished()

Get the published item of this item if this is a content-item which is draft, and has a published.

dynamic? GetPublished()

Returns

dynamic

Returns a dynamic entity if there is a draft, or null if there is no draft.

Get<TValue>(string)

Get a value using the name - and cast it to the expected strong type. For example to get an int even though it's stored as decimal.

TValue? Get<TValue>(string name)

Parameters

name string

the property name like Image - or path like Author.Name (new v15)

Returns

TValue

The typed value, or the default like null or 0 if casting isn't possible.

Type Parameters

TValue

The expected type, like string, int, etc.

Remarks

Added in v15

Get<TValue>(string, NoParamOrder, TValue?)

Get a value using the name - and cast it to the expected strong type. For example to get an int even though it's stored as decimal.

Since the parameter fallback determines the type TValue you can just write this like `Content.Get("Title", fallback: "no title")

TValue? Get<TValue>(string name, NoParamOrder noParamOrder = default, TValue? fallback = default)

Parameters

name string

the property name like Image - or path like Author.Name (new v15)

noParamOrder NoParamOrder

see Convention: Named Parameters

fallback TValue

the fallback value to provide if not found

Returns

TValue

The typed value, or the default like null or 0 if casting isn't possible.

Type Parameters

TValue

The expected type, like string, int, etc. Note that you don't need to specify it, if you specify the fallback property.

Remarks

Added in v15

Html(string, NoParamOrder, object?, bool?, object?, bool)

Show a field in the expected / the best possible way. As of now it's meant for WYSIWYG fields with Very-Rich Text. See DynamicEntity / TypedItem .Html(...) Method new v16.01

IHtmlTag? Html(string name, NoParamOrder noParamOrder = default, object? container = null, bool? toolbar = null, object? imageSettings = null, bool debug = false)

Parameters

name string

the field name

noParamOrder NoParamOrder

see Convention: Named Parameters

container object

A wrapper tag for the result. It's either a RazorBlade tag such as Kit.HtmlTag.Div(), a string such as span or an empty string `` to indicate no container. If not set it will default to a div-tag. See docs

toolbar bool?

Override default toolbar behavior on this field. See docs

imageSettings object

Settings for resizing. Default is Wysiwyg but it can also be Content or a settings object.

debug bool

Activate debug visualization to better see alignments and such.

Returns

IHtmlTag

Remarks

  • Added in 2sxc 16.01
  • Only works on Razor files inheriting from Hybrid14 or newer

Parents(string?, string?)

A dynamic list of entities which point to this item. Important for LINQ style querying or just working with various lists. Note that for getting child items of this item you can just use the properties, like content.Authors.
Please check the tutorials on 2sxc.org/dnn-tutorials/ for more info.

List<IDynamicEntity?> Parents(string? type = null, string? field = null)

Parameters

type string

Optional type filter - would only return items of this type.

field string

Optional field filter - would only return items that point to the current item in a specific field name.

Returns

List<IDynamicEntity>

A list of all items pointing here (filtered), converted to DynamicEntity for convenience.

Remarks

New in 9.42 - note also that the parameter-order is reversed to the Children()

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