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Umbraco-CMS/src/Umbraco.Core/Models/IPublishedProperty.cs
Per Ploug Krogslund 7440855c72 merge
2013-11-07 17:16:22 +01:00

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namespace Umbraco.Core.Models
{
/// <summary>
/// Represents a property of an <c>IPublishedContent</c>.
/// </summary>
public interface IPublishedProperty
{
/// <summary>
/// Gets the alias of the property.
/// </summary>
string PropertyTypeAlias { get; }
/// <summary>
/// Gets a value indicating whether the property has a value.
/// </summary>
/// <remarks>
/// <para>This is somewhat implementation-dependent -- depending on whatever IPublishedCache considers
/// a missing value.</para>
/// <para>The XmlPublishedCache raw values are strings, and it will consider missing, null or empty (and
/// that includes whitespace-only) strings as "no value".</para>
/// <para>Other caches that get their raw value from the database would consider that a property has "no
/// value" if it is missing, null, or an empty string (including whitespace-only).</para>
/// </remarks>
bool HasValue { get; }
/// <summary>
/// Gets the data value of the property.
/// </summary>
/// <remarks>
/// <para>The data value is whatever was passed to the property when it was instanciated, and it is
/// somewhat implementation-dependent -- depending on how the IPublishedCache is implemented.</para>
/// <para>The XmlPublishedCache raw values are strings exclusively since they come from the Xml cache.</para>
/// <para>For other caches that get their raw value from the database, it would be either a string,
/// an integer (Int32), or a date and time (DateTime).</para>
/// <para>If you're using that value, you're probably wrong, unless you're doing some internal
/// Umbraco stuff.</para>
/// </remarks>
object DataValue { get; }
/// <summary>
/// Gets the object value of the property.
/// </summary>
/// <remarks>
/// <para>The value is what you want to use when rendering content in an MVC view ie in C#.</para>
/// <para>It can be null, or any type of CLR object.</para>
/// <para>It has been fully prepared and processed by the appropriate converter.</para>
/// </remarks>
object Value { get; }
/// <summary>
/// Gets the XPath value of the property.
/// </summary>
/// <remarks>
/// <para>The XPath value is what you want to use when navigating content via XPath eg in the XSLT engine.</para>
/// <para>It must be either null, or a string, or an XPathNavigator.</para>
/// <para>It has been fully prepared and processed by the appropriate converter.</para>
/// </remarks>
object XPathValue { get; }
}
}