automatically mapping IPublishedContent to models

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
-## v1.3.4
-* Updates UmbracoWebContext.GetChildren to ignore case when comparing document type alias with a VM's entity name
-* Updates the Media and Entity type handlers to check for IPublishedContent before assuming the input is a string id
+## v1.3.5
+* Automatically mapping media and content entities
 
 ## v1.3.3
 * Updates MediaTypeHandler to return null if no media is found rather than returning an object with all null properties

UmbracoVault/TypeHandlers/MediaTypeHandler.cs

@@ -27,12 +27,9 @@ private static IPublishedContent Get(string stringValue)
 
     	public object GetAsType<T>(object input)
 	    {
-	        if (input is IPublishedContent)
-	        {
-	            return input;
-	        }
+	        var mediaObject = input as IPublishedContent;
+	        mediaObject = mediaObject ?? Get(input?.ToString());
 
-	        var mediaObject = Get(input?.ToString());
 	        if (mediaObject == null)
 	        {
 	            return null;

UmbracoVault/TypeHandlers/UmbracoEntityTypeHandler.cs

@@ -3,8 +3,11 @@
 using System.Linq;
 
 using Umbraco.Core.Models;
+using Umbraco.Web;
 
 using UmbracoVault.Attributes;
+using UmbracoVault.Exceptions;
+using UmbracoVault.Extensions;
 
 namespace UmbracoVault.TypeHandlers
 {
@@ -13,9 +16,23 @@ public class UmbracoEntityTypeHandler : ITypeHandler
     {
         public object GetAsType<T>(object input)
         {
-            if (input is IPublishedContent)
+            var publishedContent = input as IPublishedContent;
+            if (publishedContent != null)
             {
-                return input;
+                var result = typeof(T).CreateWithContentConstructor<T>(publishedContent);
+                if (result == null)
+                {
+                    result = typeof(T).CreateWithNoParams<T>();
+                }
+
+                if (result == null)
+                {
+                    throw new ConstructorUnavailableException(typeof(T));
+                }
+
+                Vault.Context.FillClassProperties(result, (alias, recursive) => publishedContent.GetPropertyValue(alias, recursive));
+
+                return result;
             }
 
             var content = Vault.Context.GetContentById<T>(input.ToString());

UmbracoVault/UmbracoVault.nuspec

@@ -12,8 +12,7 @@
         <description>Vault for Umbraco is an easy-to-use, extensible ORM to quickly and easily get strongly-typed Umbraco CMS data into your views. It allows you to create lightly-decorated classes that Vault will understand how to hydrate. This gives you the full view model-style experience in Umbraco that you are accustomed to in MVC, complete with strongly-typed view properties (no more magic strings in your views).</description>
         <summary>Vault for Umbraco is an easy-to-use, extensible ORM to quickly and easily get strongly-typed Umbraco CMS data into your views.</summary>
         <releaseNotes>
-          * Updates UmbracoWebContext.GetChildren to ignore case when comparing document type alias with a VM's entity name
-          * Updates Media and Entity type handlers to check for IPublishedContent before assuming string input
+          * Automatically mapping media and content entities
         </releaseNotes>
       <copyright>(c) The Nerdery LLC 2016. All Rights Reserved.</copyright>
       <tags>Umbraco UmbracoVault Mapping ObjectMapper ORM CMS</tags>

appveyor.yml

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 environment:
-  CURRENT_VERSION: 1.3.4
-version: 1.3.4-{build}
+  CURRENT_VERSION: 1.3.5
+version: 1.3.5-{build}
 os: Visual Studio 2015
 assembly_info:
   patch: true