Extension method for site setting deployments, optimize AddTokenToPath - This week in Orchard (11/08/2021)
The development of Orchard Core of course has been continued after the release of 1.0. Are you curious about the newest improvements of Orchard Core? Well, let's check them out!
Orchard Core updates
Optimize AddTokenToPath
The community tries to make Orchard Core as optimized and as fast as it could be. C# and ASP.NET Core with other third-party libraries offer several tricks and techniques to achieve this goal. For example, you can use ZString instead of StringBuilder. ZString is a library that provides StringBuilder and StringWriter with zero allocation, meaning it's allocating an array on the stack for small buffers, instead of creating new StringBuilders and StringWriters every time. All ZString methods only allocate the final string. Also, ZString has enabled to access the inner buffer, so if the output target has stringless API, you can achieve completely zero allocation.
Or another improvement could be to not use string.Split that causing array allocation, use sub-strings instead.
Add extension method for site setting deployments
Whenever you would like to add a deployment step that allows exporting your custom site settings, you need to register three services with the transient, scoped, and singleton lifetimes. It's not a huge issue though because you can easily open a Startup.cs file of a module that contains these kinds of registrations and see how you can do it in your module but having an extension method for site setting deployments could reduce the lines that you need to copy every time. The new AddSiteSettingsPropertyDeploymentStep allows you to register your custom site settings deployments just in one line! Check out the Startup.cs files of any module to see the new way of registering your site setting deployments.
Not use a current culture when checking invalid Autoroute path
If you enable the Localization module and set a default culture to a non en-US culture, e.g. th-TH, you will get a validation error when trying to save a content item with an Autoroute part. Here is the screenshot when trying to save a content item and a default culture is th-TH.
This issue is from AutoroutePartExtensions.ValidatePathFieldValue method. Inside the method, there is a call of autoroute.Path?.IndexOf("//") which returns 0 instead of -1 when a current culture is th-TH. According to the MS document, IndexOf(String) searches a word by using culture and case sensitivity.
Refer to Recommendations for string usage, we should use StringComparison.Ordinal or StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase for the non-linguistic string search. There is no case in a space and //, so the fix here was to pick StringComparison.Ordinal and to match IndexOf which is case-sensitive.
Cypress 8.2.0 and Trumbowyg 2.25.1
If you are a huge Orchard Core enthusiast and like to check out the recent changes of the CMS from time to time, you may notice that the community upgrades the different .NET/Client-side/Test libraries from time to time. The Orchard Core documentation has a Libraries page under the Resources one where you can see the versions of these libraries that are used across the main branch of Orchard Core. Antoine Griffard recently updated Cypress to 8.2.0 and Trumbowyg to 2.25.1! With these updates, you can make sure that if you would like to use the built-in libraries of Orchard Core you will always have the latest versions!
News from the community
Lombiq Technologies: new developer colleagues and new group photo
We had a great company trip last week where almost all of the colleagues of Lombiq gathered together to spend the whole day together offline. This was a great opportunity to update our group photo on our official website, so head to the About us page where you can see the most, but not all of our team as of the summer of 2021.
And we also have two new colleagues to introduce: Ádám Jakab and Szabolcs Deme. Don't forget to check out their bio too!
DotNest Core
DotNest Core is a complete redevelopment of the DotNest platform, all on the latest version of Orchard Core. We've been running it with a couple of select few customers for a while now, and it's time to open it up a bit more. While you can't yet just simply create an Orchard Core-based DotNest site, you can sign up for our limited beta here. You'll soon be able to get a fully functional, reliably hosted Orchard Core site on DotNest where you can build your personal website or something to showcase your Orchard skills with.
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