Hi all I have an internal v8 package which I created to migr Umbraco #package-development

Hi all, I have an internal v8 package, which I cr...

Owain Jones

09/13/2023, 1:59 PM

Hi all, I have an internal v8 package, which I created to migrate our Umbraco 8 sites to 10+, and I now need to downgrade it to work on Umbraco 7; and as I've never made a package for v7 before, I was wondering if anyone has any tips or know of any gotchas/things I should look out for whilst downgrading it? 😬

Anders Bjerner

09/13/2023, 2:56 PM

No dependency injection out of the box, so lots of

UmbracoContext.Current

for the content cache and

ApplicationContext.Services

for misc services.

Anders Bjerner

09/13/2023, 3:00 PM

If it helps anything, I created a package for U7 that exposes existing content and media through an API: https://github.com/limbo-works/Limbo.Umbraco.MigrationsApi/blob/v1/main/src/Limbo.Umbraco.MigrationsApi/MigrationsController.cs Since it's in a controller, I have acces to

UmbracoHelper

via the

Umbraco

property, but I have to acces a service like the content type service via

ApplicationContext.Services.ContentTypeService

Owain Jones

09/13/2023, 3:03 PM

Ah I'd forgotten how spoilt we are today with the lovely built in DI! I do remember using Autofac years ago, so I guess I'll have to re-learn that haha 😛 Thanks for the link to that package! That'll be a massive help!

Owain Jones

09/13/2023, 3:05 PM

Also, looking through the old v7 API docs, it seems like all of the services I used in v8 are present in v7, so if I wanted to use Autofac to inject them as I do in v8, would I need to manually register them in a

IApplicationEventHandler

? Or would that be a rabbit hole of a bad time? 😬

Anders Bjerner

09/13/2023, 3:25 PM

I don't think I've used Autofac, but most likely you have to set up things manually. I've set up LightInject for DI before in U7, so maybe that will work?

Owain Jones

09/14/2023, 10:34 AM

Cheers mate, I'll have a poke around and see what's what 🙂

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