Umbraco.JsonModels.Builder

Umbraco.JsonModels.Builder is a package made for use with Umbraco. This package is meant to contain all the Umbraco backoffice models, and their corresponding builders. If you see any model/builder missing, please create an issue / open a PR for it yourself, we would love your contribution!

What even is a builder?

Before we even get started, lets talk about what a builder is. We are using the Builder pattern here. The builder is a class that creates a model, but you yourself can then use that builder to tweak the different properties. If you take a look at the DocumentTypeBuilder you will see all these properties:

compositeContentTypes;
isContainer;
allowAsRoot;
allowedTemplates;
allowedContentTypes;
alias;
description;
thumbnail;
name;
id;
icon;
trashed;
key;
parentId;
path;
allowCultureVariant;
isElement;
defaultTemplate;
lockedCompositeContentTypes: any[];
historyCleanupPreventCleanup;
historyCleanupKeepAllVersionsNewerThanDays;
historyCleanupKeepLatestVersionPerDayForDays;
documentTypeGroupBuilders;
documentTypeHistoryCleanupBuilder;

This looks very daunting, what types are these properties, what values do you fill out? You could imagine this being a big process, every time you needed to create a document type. Well the builder handles setting all of this for you! So all you would need to do, when using a builder to create a document type is:

const documentType = new DocumentTypeBuilder()
      .build();

The builder will then fill out all the properties with default values!

Prerequisites

This project was made with Node V16, so the minimum requirement is node 16.17.1

Getting started

You can import a builder in the top of your file like so:

import {  DocumentTypeBuilder} from "@umbraco/json-models-builders";

You can then use the imported builder to build a model:

const documentType = new DocumentTypeBuilder()
      .build();

If you want to configure a property, like giving the document type a specific name, there are different methods for that, for changing the name, you can call the withName() method like so:

const documentType = new DocumentTypeBuilder()
      .withName("My document type")
      .build();

Contributing to Umbraco.JsonModels.Builders

There are a few things to consider when contributing

Adding new models/builders

When adding new models/builders, it is important to register the exports in the correct index.ts files! Lets say you've added a new builder, remember to export it in the lib/builders/index.ts file.

Testing your code

• Run npm run build & npm link in the root of this directory.
• Now the package is ready to be linked where-ever you are using it, without it having to be on npm!
• Run npm link @umbraco/json-models-builders in your directory where you are using this package.