Yes, ApplicationContext.Current.Services.EntityService.GetObjectType(into id)

This will return an UmbracoObjectTypes enum, which I believe is what you are looking for.

- Morten

Hey Morten,

Looks totally perfect, however I'm getting an exception when passing in a node id?

var objectType = ApplicationContext.Current.Services.EntityService.GetObjectType(1068);

Exception:

System.InvalidCastException was unhandled by user code
  HResult=-2147467262
  Message=Object must implement IConvertible.
  Source=mscorlib
  StackTrace:
       at System.Convert.ChangeType(Object value, Type conversionType, IFormatProvider provider)
       at System.Convert.ChangeType(Object value, Type conversionType)
       at Umbraco.Core.Persistence.Database.ExecuteScalar[T](String sql, Object[] args)
       at Umbraco.Core.Persistence.Database.ExecuteScalar[T](Sql sql)
       at Umbraco.Core.Services.EntityService.GetObjectType(Int32 id)
       at OurUmbraco.PropertyConverters.MultiNodeTreePickerPropertyConverter.ConvertDataToSource(PublishedPropertyType propertyType, Object source, Boolean preview) in c:\Users\Jeavon\Documents\Visual Studio Projects\BitBucket Umbraco-Core-Property-Editor-Converters\OurUmbraco.PropertyConverters\MultiNodeTreePickerPropertyConverter.cs:line 48
       at Umbraco.Core.Models.PublishedContent.PublishedPropertyType.ConvertDataToSource(Object source, Boolean preview)
       at Umbraco.Web.PublishedCache.XmlPublishedCache.XmlPublishedProperty.<.ctor>b__0()
       at System.Lazy`1.CreateValue()
  InnerException: 

Thanks

Jeavon

Oops, that doesn't look good. What type of item are you fetching the UmbracoObjectType for?

- Morten

Ah, its doing an ExecuteScalar<string> on nodeObjectType which is actually a nullable Guid. So that's probably where the conversion issue is happening :-S

Should be easy to fix though.

- Morten

It's just a ContentItem, jut tried with a Media item and same exception

Jeavon

Ah ha, like easy enough fix to make it into v7.1 RTM?

I dit it like this (not so clean):

 PreValue preValueType = (preValues.Where(m => m.Key == "startNode")).First().Value;
 if(preValueType.Value.IndexOf("content") > -1) {
    classString.AppendLine("\t\t[UmbracoContent]");
 } if(preValueType.Value.IndexOf("media") > -1) {
    classString.AppendLine("\t\t[UmbracoMedia]");
}

I've got a other problem that maybe someone here know. If building a object generator and i need to find out if an object is a string or an other object. I've got the DataType like this:

IDataTypeDefinition dataType = umbracoContext.Application.Services.DataTypeService.GetDataTypeDefinitionByPropertyEditorAlias(propertyType.PropertyEditorAlias).First();

But i can't find what type of object that is. I've seen that the umbracoWidth is the Type int but where can i find that in the DataTypeDefinition?

DataTypeService don't have a GetObjectType.. or must i use the EntityService to get the datatype object type?

Yes, you need to use EntityService to get the Umbraco object type.

What is it you are creating?

I've building some kind of Entity Framework for Umbraco. I already have the mapping and save in the open source project

http://our.umbraco.org/projects/developer-tools/w3s-umbraco-object-relation-mapper

see how it works https://github.com/W3S-uORM/uORM

and it would be nice if you have a render class that create the objects automatically.

Ah ok, do you know about IPublishedContentModelFactory?

Watch Stephan's session from CodeGarden at around 45 minutes http://stream.umbraco.org/video/9921022/core-internals-for-website-development

whoo double..

Did not know that Jeavon! Thanks, But because i got my own ORM (with save and dependency injection) i need to write my own that works with that ORM. But i can look at his code how he finds the type. Thanks!

Jeavon, maybe you know this. I'm trying to find the ClrType from a object. This is what is got:

Type type = Umbraco.Core.Models.PublishedContent.PublishedContentType.Get(publishedItemType, contentType.Alias).GetPropertyType(propertyType.Alias).ClrType;

But if i look at the mediatype image, umbracowidth it says it's a object. But in a debugger it says it is a Int? Where can i find that ClrType that is that Int?

I'm afraid I don't but IPublishedContentModelFactory is not part of Stephan's model generator, it is a hook built into the Umbraco v7.1.4 Core for creating projects such as this. I believe it may expose the types of all the properties in the installation (taking into account value converters) as I think I remember Stephan talking about it.

I've already talked with Stephan about it and he came up with example above. I just seen this tool https://github.com/lars-erik/Umbraco.CodeGen and it uses this to to the mapping:

<TypeMappings Default="String" DefaultDefinitionId="0cc0eba1-9960-42c9-bf9b-60e150b429ae">
<TypeMapping DataTypeId="Umbraco.TrueFalse" Type="Boolean" Description="True/false"/>
<TypeMapping DataTypeId="Umbraco.Integer" Type="Int32" Description="Numeric"/>
<TypeMapping DataTypeId="Umbraco.UploadField" Type="Int32" Description="Upload"/>
<TypeMapping DataTypeId="Umbraco.DateTime" Type="DateTime" Description="Date Picker with time"/>
<TypeMapping DataTypeId="Umbraco.ColorPickerAlias" Type="String" Description="Approved Color"/><!-- System.Drawing.Color <- I Wish.. -->
<TypeMapping DataTypeId="Umbraco.FolderBrowser" Type="Object" Description="Folder Browser"/>
<TypeMapping DataTypeId="Umbraco.Date" Type="DateTime" Description="Date Picker"/>
<TypeMapping DataTypeId="Umbraco.ContentPickerAlias" Type="Int32" Description="Content Picker"/>
<TypeMapping DataTypeId="Umbraco.MediaPicker" Type="Int32" Description="Media Picker"/>
<TypeMapping DataTypeId="Umbraco.TinyMCEv3" Type="System.Web.IHtmlString" Description="Richtext editor"/>

So i don't think it's possible?

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