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);
}
private RepositoryItemBase GetUpdatedRepoItem(List <GuidMapper> list)
{
string s = RepositorySerializer.SerializeToString(this);
foreach (GuidMapper mapper in list)
{
s = s.Replace(mapper.Original.ToString(), mapper.newGuid.ToString());
}
return((RepositoryItemBase)RepositorySerializer.DeserializeFromText(this.GetType(), s, filePath: this.FilePath));
}
/// <summary>
/// Update flow control and other places with new guid of entities.
/// If FC is GoTo action and action got a new guid this method update flow control value with new guid
/// </summary>
/// <param name="list">mapping of old and new guids</param>
/// <returns></returns>
private RepositoryItemBase ReplaceOldGuidUsages(List <GuidMapper> list)
{
string s = RepositorySerializer.SerializeToString(this);
foreach (GuidMapper mapper in list)
{
s = s.Replace(mapper.Original.ToString(), mapper.newGuid.ToString());
s = s.Replace("ParentGuid=" + "\"" + mapper.newGuid.ToString() + "\"", "ParentGuid=" + "\"" + mapper.Original.ToString() + "\"");
}
return((RepositoryItemBase)RepositorySerializer.DeserializeFromText(this.GetType(), s, filePath: string.Empty));
}