Blaze Item Extensions - as the name implies - is a set of extensions to the Sitecore.Data.Items.Item class that provides helper methods for loading and mapping common Sitecore field types to native C# types or common Sitecore types.
These extension methods would be handy for content-driven components that don't require Experience Editor functionality.
- Current version: 0.95
- About & Download: Sitecore Spark - Blaze - Item Extensions
- Sitecore 8.0 or greater
Include the SitecoreSpark.Blaze.ItemExtensions.cs file in your solution and ensure it compiles with the rest of your code. Don't forget to add a @using directive to the files that need to use the extension methods.
For example, take the following component data template in Sitecore:
Here's the view model in code:
public class PromoViewModel
{
public string Title { get; set; }
public string Body { get; set; }
public DateTime OfferExpires { get; set; }
public LinkField CallToAction { get; set; }
}Here's what your mapping code might look like with Blaze Item Extensions:
Item sourceItem = RenderingContext.Current.Rendering.Item;
PromoViewModel viewModel = new PromoViewModel()
{
Title = sourceItem.LoadText("Title"),
Body = sourceItem.LoadText("Body Copy"),
OfferExpires = sourceItem.LoadDateTime("Offer Expires"),
CallToAction = sourceItem.LoadGeneralLink("Call To Action")
};Some methods - such as GetString() - can be used for multiple types. The IntelliSense documentation snippets will describe which fields each method can safely load.
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MIT License. See accompanying "LICENSE" file.