/// <summary>
/// Creates a lightweight DD4T Component that contains enough information such that the semantic model builder can cope and build a strongly typed model from it.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="componentMeta">A <see cref="DD4T.ContentModel.IComponentMeta"/> instance obtained from CD API.</param>
/// <returns>A DD4T Component.</returns>
private static IComponent CreateComponent(IComponentMeta componentMeta)
{
Component component = new Component
{
Id = $"tcm:{componentMeta.PublicationId}-{componentMeta.Id}",
LastPublishedDate = componentMeta.LastPublicationDate,
RevisionDate = componentMeta.ModificationDate,
Schema = new Schema
{
PublicationId = componentMeta.PublicationId.ToString(),
Id = $"tcm:{componentMeta.PublicationId}-{componentMeta.SchemaId}"
},
MetadataFields = new FieldSet()
};
FieldSet metadataFields = new FieldSet();
component.MetadataFields.Add("standardMeta", new Field {
EmbeddedValues = new List <FieldSet> {
metadataFields
}
});
foreach (DictionaryEntry de in componentMeta.CustomMeta.NameValues)
{
object v = ((NameValuePair)de.Value).Value;
if (v == null)
{
continue;
}
string k = de.Key.ToString();
metadataFields.Add(k, new Field {
Name = k, Values = new List <string> {
v.ToString()
}
});
}
// The semantic mapping requires that some metadata fields exist. This may not be the case so we map some component meta properties onto them
// if they don't exist.
if (!metadataFields.ContainsKey("dateCreated"))
{
metadataFields.Add("dateCreated", new Field {
Name = "dateCreated", DateTimeValues = new List <DateTime> {
componentMeta.LastPublicationDate
}
});
}
if (!metadataFields.ContainsKey("name"))
{
metadataFields.Add("name", new Field {
Name = "name", Values = new List <string> {
componentMeta.Title
}
});
}
return(component);
}