Umbraco-CMS/src/Umbraco.Core/Models/IContentModel.cs

using Umbraco.Cms.Core.Models.PublishedContent;

namespace Umbraco.Cms.Core.Models;

/// <summary>
///     The basic view model returned for front-end Umbraco controllers
/// </summary>
/// <remarks>
///     <para>
///         <see cref="IContentModel" /> exists in order to unify all view models in Umbraco, whether it's a normal
///         template view or a user's custom model that they have created when doing route hijacking or custom routes.
///     </para>
///     <para>
///         By default all front-end template views inherit from UmbracoViewPage which has a model of
///         <see cref="IPublishedContent" /> but the model returned
///         from the controllers is <see cref="IContentModel" /> which in normal circumstances would not work. This works
///         with UmbracoViewPage because it
///         performs model binding between IContentModel and IPublishedContent. This offers a lot of flexibility when
///         rendering views. In some cases if you
///         are route hijacking and returning a custom implementation of <see cref="IContentModel" /> and your view is
///         strongly typed to this model, you can still
///         render partial views created in the back office that have the default model of IPublishedContent without having
///         to worry about explicitly passing
///         that model to the view.
///     </para>
/// </remarks>
public interface IContentModel
{
    /// <summary>
    ///     Gets the <see cref="IPublishedContent" />
    /// </summary>
    IPublishedContent Content { get; }
}