Why isn't this working 😦

cs
public class DiscordChannelDataList : IDataListSource
{
    private readonly IContentmentContentContext _contentContext;
    private readonly IDiscordService _discordService;

    public DiscordChannelDataList(IContentmentContentContext contentContext, IDiscordService discordService)
    {
        _contentContext = contentContext;
        _discordService = discordService;
    }

    public string Name => "Discord Server Channels";
    public string Description => "A list of channels from a Discord server";
    public string Icon => "icon-badge";
    public Dictionary<string, object> DefaultValues { get; } = new();
    public IEnumerable<ConfigurationField> Fields { get; } = new List<ConfigurationField>();
    public string Group => "Discord";
    public OverlaySize OverlaySize => OverlaySize.Large;

    public IEnumerable<DataListItem?> GetItems(Dictionary<string, object> config)
    {
        try
        {
            var currentNode = _contentContext.GetCurrentContent(out bool isParent);
            if (currentNode is null)
                return Enumerable.Empty<DataListItem>();
            
            var server = currentNode.Ancestor<Server>();
            if (server?.ServerId == null)
                return Enumerable.Empty<DataListItem>();

            var serverId = ulong.Parse(server.ServerId);

            var channels = Task.Run(async () => await _discordService.GetTextChannelsAsync(serverId));

            var rolesResult = channels.Result.ToList();
            if (rolesResult.Count == 0)
                return Enumerable.Empty<DataListItem>();

            return rolesResult.Select(x => new DataListItem
            {
                Value = x.Id.ToString(),
                Name = x.Name,
            });
        }
        catch
        {
            // intentionally empty
        }
        
        return Enumerable.Empty<DataListItem>();
       
    }
}

I have very simliar code in another project and it works fine. I want to get the current node id, to access the root node property. My tree is: DiscordServer -> node DiscordServer -> node I am on "node" and want "discord server" property. I've tried the above code, and also some weirdness:

cs
var gotContext = _umbracoContextAccessor.TryGetUmbracoContext(out var umbracoContext);
            if (!gotContext || umbracoContext?.Content == null)
                return Enumerable.Empty<DataListItem>();

            var gotId = int.TryParse(_requestAccessor.GetQueryStringValue("id"), out var id);
            if (!gotId)
                return Enumerable.Empty<DataListItem>();

            var publishedContent = umbracoContext.Content.GetById(id);
            if (publishedContent == null)
                return Enumerable.Empty<DataListItem>();

There is a known issue where the context can't be found from within a blocklist, is your property within a blocklist? 🙂 https://github.com/leekelleher/umbraco-contentment/issues/384

Ahhh - that's exactly where it is. I just noticed that my "working" code is not in a blocklist, but my "broken" code is. Ahh! That's so frustrating. It's sent in this request, which I have access to inside of the data list but I can't get the payload out 😦 https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1232970455259021342/1232989408362369105/image.png?ex=662b765e&is=662a24de&hm=0acd9b9fa37bfabd5fa7217163b80be8e7dbcdf65fb01acc10fb24a75b4fcf80&

That's a nice workaround, I wonder how it will affect performance for regular frontend requests though 🤔

umbraco frontend, or user frontend?

Well I guess it depends on your setup, mainly the middleware I was thinking of

I don't see any performance degradation in the backoffice at all, which is nice, there is no frontend to this (consumer facing) as it's just a Discord bot asking for details. so hopefully it'll be ok

Ahh ok no biggie then 🙂