Allows for the ability to strongly-type a list of child items

[asmorger]

Summary

Incorporated changes from an old Vault fork that allows for querying strongly-typed children based upon a base type.

Example

[UmbracoEntity]
public abstract class BaseItem
{
     public string Title { get; set;}
}

[UmbracoEntity]
public class RangeItem : BaseItem
{
     public int Start { get; set; }
     public int Stop { get; set; }
} 

[UmbracoEntity]
public class SpecialItem : BaseItem
{
     public string LookAtMeIAmSpecial { get; set; }
}

var children = Vault.Context.GetChildren<BaseItem>(0);

The children variable in this instance will then contain an array of either strongly-typed Range or Special Items, as determined by the individual item's Alias/DocType.

Reference

See feature request #22

Notes

• There are some potentially bad practices in this code we may want to re-design, such as scanning all assemblies for all classes with an UmbracoEntity attribute.

[asmorger]

Note: This code was originally authored by @jaredswarts55. I cleaned it up a little, but it's mostly his.

[kensykora]

Cool -- thinking this should be in a 2.0 release since potentially it changes behavior, what do you think?

[asmorger]

As long as I can get an alpha build so we can incorporate into the projects that currently have it, I'm fine with that.

I know internally there are a number of individual forks that have implemented this at The Nerdery, so this would need to be a known dependency for them before we attempt to upgrade them off the forks and onto the Nuget package.

[kensykora]

Merged into 2.0.0 branch. Going to rename a few things since this is not strictly specific to just getting child collections, and applies to getting individual items. Will change the default behavior to NOT do this to integrate into the next 1.3 release.