Multiple schema references

Tamar_Zanzouri · March 31, 2020, 2:13pm

I would love to ask a question.

Because we can reference multiple schemas in one property I wanted to know if there is a way to know what schema does the hash belong to. What Schema is being referenced.

I was thinking about implementing a key value pair with key as schema name and value as a reference to a schema.

Is there a way to do that with existing functionality?

Thank you so much for your help.

Sebastian · March 31, 2020, 2:41pm

You mean from the API?

You have to query all referenes items and then you get the scheman name.

This is an example in C#:

github.com

Squidex/squidex/blob/master/backend/tools/TestSuite/TestSuite.ApiTests/ContentQueryTests.cs#L38


public ContentQueryTests(ContentQueryFixture fixture)
{
    _ = fixture;
}


[Fact]
public async Task Should_query_by_ids()
{
    var items = await _.Contents.GetAsync(new ContentQuery { OrderBy = "data/number/iv asc" });


    var itemsById = await _.Contents.GetAsync(new HashSet<Guid>(items.Items.Take(3).Select(x => x.Id)));


    Assert.Equal(3, itemsById.Items.Count);
    Assert.Equal(3, itemsById.Total);


    foreach (var item in itemsById.Items)
    {
        Assert.Equal(_.AppName, item.AppName);
        Assert.Equal(_.SchemaName, item.SchemaName);
    }
}

You can use the API to query multiple content items by ids from multiple schemas

Tamar_Zanzouri · March 31, 2020, 2:55pm

This is super helpful! Thank you so much!

Tamar_Zanzouri · April 6, 2020, 8:13pm

Hi Sebastian, I looked at the code example you attached and still couldn’t really understand how I can implement it. I am using Squidex.ClientLibrary and in-order to create a client to get data I need a schema name.
Would love for your help.

Sebastian · April 6, 2020, 8:27pm

Hi,

in this post I added a short sample: Get schema contents with set of ids doesn't work

The contents-client is usually per schema, but the method to get contents by id is independent from the schema. It is a inconsistency…

So you can just use any schema name or a dummy schema. As long as you only use GetAsync(HashSet) it does not matter…

Tamar_Zanzouri · April 6, 2020, 8:46pm

Thank you so much Sebastian. I really appreciate your help

Jiri · August 3, 2020, 11:01am

Maybe it will be nice to introduce new api in dotnet client with something as:

clientManager.CreateGenericContentsClient();

or

clientManager.CreateRawContentsClient();

which could return DynamicData / DynamicConent by default base on your example from another post.

Base on request on this forum (and my relatively short experience) it looks like it is pretty common to use case.