IContent or IPublishedContent?

[fickle timber]

Hi

I have a controller/class where a method in this class is being called to get a page programmatically.

As an example, in Umbraco 13 I have 2 pages. When I'm on page 2, I'm calling this method to get some details from page 1.

I can get it by IContent (GetById) or some documents suggest using IPublishedContent.

Which is the correct way to get this type of record?

Thanks

[hexed island]

You should only use IPublishedContent unless you need data straight from the database and understand the performance hit this causes.

https://dev.to/mattbrailsford/converting-icontent-to-ipublishedcontent-in-umbraco-v8-3m7i#:~:text=The main difference with these,accessible and strongly typed manor.

[fickle timber]

It was that link that led me to asking this question 😀

If using IPublishedContent then I don't see a method to get page by guid?

[hexed island]

Yes, you can always get it by Guid for IPublishedContent. Show some code where you're stuck and we'll have a look.

[fickle timber]

I think I've worked it out.

I added UmbracoHelper in my constructor and did:

Var con = umbracHelper.Content(myGuid);

This seems to have worked, is this the correct way to retrieve the page contents?

[hexed island]

that looks about right yeah, as long as it gives you an PublishedContent!

one tip, if you already have a content item, then content.Key will give you the Guid of that item. I don't know if that's the case for you but it might be useful.