public RepositoryItemBase CreateCopy(bool setNewGUID = true)
{
// Create a copy by serailized and load from the text, it will not copy all atrs only the one which are saved to XML
string s = RepositorySerializer.SerializeToString(this);
// TODO: fixme not good practice and not safe, add param to handle in function or another solution...
RepositoryItemBase duplicatedItem = (RepositoryItemBase)RepositorySerializer.DeserializeFromText(this.GetType(), s, filePath: this.FilePath);
//change the GUID of duplicated item
if (setNewGUID && duplicatedItem != null)
{
duplicatedItem.ParentGuid = Guid.Empty;
duplicatedItem.ExternalID = string.Empty;
duplicatedItem.Guid = Guid.NewGuid();
List <GuidMapper> guidMappingList = new List <GuidMapper>();
//set new GUID also to child items
UpdateRepoItemGuids(duplicatedItem, guidMappingList);
duplicatedItem = duplicatedItem.GetUpdatedRepoItem(guidMappingList);
}
return(duplicatedItem);
}
