consumeContext vs getContext
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Warren Buckley
03/14/2024, 10:01 PMWhat's the difference between
this.consumeContextthis.getContextUmbEntityActionBase<any>j
Jacob Overgaard
03/15/2024, 8:06 AMGood question!
getContextconsumeContextJacob Overgaard
03/15/2024, 8:06 AMYou would use consumeContext in your constructor, whereas getContext can be used inside an async method directly.
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D_Inventor
03/15/2024, 8:54 AMOoo, this is really good to know. Gotta remember this
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Warren Buckley
03/15/2024, 9:12 AMYeh I used consumeContext in ctor and now wondering why the entity action in core I looked at used getContext in the main execute method. Not sure what the benefit is or preference is to use?!
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Jacob Overgaard
03/15/2024, 10:13 AMIt's overkill to consume the notificationContext for instance, since you would probably only show a single notification anyway, so might as well just request it just before you are about to show the message
Jacob Overgaard
03/15/2024, 10:14 AMcurrently doing the unpublish modal, which has to show tracked dependencies, but only in some cases will it prevent the document being unpublished, so in that case I only make the network request to the configuration endpoint to ask the server if that is allowed if I detect tracked references
Jacob Overgaard
03/15/2024, 10:15 AM Copy code
// If there are tracked references, we also want to check if we are allowed to unpublish the document:
if (this._hasTrackedReferences) {
const documentConfigurationContext = await this.getContext(UMB_DOCUMENT_CONFIGURATION_CONTEXT);
this._hasUnpublishPermission =
(await documentConfigurationContext.getDocumentConfiguration())?.disableUnpublishWhenReferenced === false ??
true;
}w
Warren Buckley
03/15/2024, 10:40 AMThis was the only difference I could spot as to why my entity action would not trigger from the content tree menu items
Warren Buckley
03/15/2024, 10:41 AMAnd Niels just uses getContext as opposed to consumeContext which I do... 🤔
Warren Buckley
03/15/2024, 10:41 AM2 Views