Custom URL RewriteProvider in EPiServer 7

Jonathan Nguyen

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Hi!

I'm having some issues with upgrading the current EPi6R2 project functions to EPiServer 7 functions.

One of the issues include a custom FriendlyUrlRewriteProvider. The overwritten method looks like this:

        protected override bool ConvertToExternalInternal(EPiServer.UrlBuilder url, object internalObject, System.Text.Encoding toEncoding)
        {
            // We call the base implementation and if it returns true
            // then we do our magic.
            if (base.ConvertToExternalInternal(url, internalObject, toEncoding))
            {
                // The following handling rules are copied
                // from the base method.
                PageReference pageLink = internalObject as PageReference;
                if (pageLink == null)
                {
                    pageLink = PermanentLinkUtility.GetPageReference(url);
                }
                if (PageReference.IsNullOrEmpty(pageLink))
                {
                    this.TryConvertPermanentLink(url, out pageLink);
                    if (pageLink == null)
                    {
                        return true;
                    }
                }

                // Do something if you get the PageReference - Reference is needed to determine pagetypes

The main issue seems to be that the PermanentLinkUtility or any other way I've used to parse the Url/PageId to a PageReference doesn't seem to pull through. Any ideas on how to resolve the PageType of the current page in some otherway?

Cheers,

#75893

Oct 10, 2013 8:08

Jonathan Nguyen

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An update to the matter - i got it fixed.

The Reflector told me that PageReferences have been changed to ContentReferences and by changing the following statements:

        protected override bool ConvertToExternalInternal(EPiServer.UrlBuilder url, object internalObject, System.Text.Encoding toEncoding)
        {
            // We call the base implementation and if it returns true
            // then we do our magic.
            if (base.ConvertToExternalInternal(url, internalObject, toEncoding))
            {
                // The following handling rules are copied
                // from the base method.
                //PageReference pageLink = internalObject as PageReference;
                ContentReference pageLink = internalObject as ContentReference;
                if (pageLink == null)
                {
                    //pageLink = PermanentLinkUtility.GetPageReference(url);
                    pageLink = PermanentLinkUtility.GetContentReference(url);
                }
                if (PageReference.IsNullOrEmpty(pageLink))
                {
                    this.TryConvertPermanentLink(url, out pageLink);
                    if (pageLink == null)
                    {
                        return true;
                    }
                }

                // Do something if you get the PageReference - Reference is needed to determine pagetypes

And the ContentReference needs to be converted to PageReference:

                PageData page = DataFactory.Instance.GetPage(pageLink.ToPageReference());

Hope this helps someone ;)

#75895

Oct 10, 2013 9:39

Vote:

Good that you found a solution yourself.

But generally, using the events ConvertingToExternal, ConvertedToExternal, ConvertingToInternal and ConvertedToInternal and/or UrlRewriteModules is better since it mostly gives you less headache when doing maintenance and upgrading.

#75901

Oct 10, 2013 12:51