从Umbraco中的UrlName获取节点

Question

I am working on an Umbraco set up ( Umbraco 7 ) and I need to be able to load a node from a node.UrlName .

I tried Xpath but that didn't work. Here is my xpath :

var facNode = umbraco.NodeFactory.Node.GetNodeByXpath("/*[@UrlName='" + urlName + "']");

I have also tried a few variations of this without / , with // and just looking for an id instead of a UrlName .

This seems to be something fairly simple but I seem to be missing something. I am pretty new to Umbraco so any help would be greatly appreciated.

Id there a better way than xpath ? What class should I be using for this?

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Well, there are a couple of things here. Firstly, the xpath is case-sensitive, so you need to target @urlName not @UrlName .

Also it's worth pointing out that trying to locate a node by the urlName property isn't a very good strategy because multiple nodes could have an identical urlName property. This is possible because Umbraco only insists that the urlName property is unique where the node shares the same parent.

This makes sense because (eg when grouping news/blog articles) you may want a node called October under a node called 2014 but also a node called October under a parent called 2013. In this scenario, your xpath would locate both October nodes and therefore not work.

As far as a btter way, it depends on what the context is and what you are trying to achieve. You certainly should be avoiding using the umbraco.NodeFactory.Node as from Umbraco 4.8 the standard has been to use the IPublishedContent interface which is arguably more flexible.