SystemProperties.Status always returning Null

jk123 · August 7, 2019, 5:03am

I am retrieving entries and looking at the SystemProperties of that entry. I am receiving values for ID and Version but Status is always Null.

I’m attempting to get this status so I know if the entry is Draft or Published.

Is there any other way to find this out if not this way?

Thanks.

Alma · August 9, 2019, 11:50am

Hi @jk123, which API and SDK are you using? Could you also explain a bit more about the use case? as generally CDA is used for retrieving published entries and CPA for draft ones.

robert · August 9, 2019, 1:54pm

Hi @jk123

The Status property is only applicable to upload resources. To find out if an entry is in draft or published you’d have to do something similar to what we do in the .NET example app:

github.com

contentful/the-example-app.csharp/blob/master/TheExampleApp/ViewComponents/EntryStateViewComponent.cs#L39


{
    _httpClient = httpClient;
    _options = optionsManager.Options;
}


/// <summary>
/// Invokes the view component and returns the result.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="sys">They system properties of the entry to display status for.</param>
/// <returns>The view.</returns>
public async Task<IViewComponentResult> InvokeAsync(IEnumerable<SystemProperties> sys)
{
    // Create a new client with preview set to false to always get the entry from the delivery API.
    var client = new ContentfulClient(_httpClient, _options.DeliveryApiKey, _options.PreviewApiKey, _options.SpaceId, false);
    IEnumerable<EntryStateModel> entries = null;
    var model = new EntryStateModel();
    try
    {
        // Try getting the entry by the specified Id. If it throws or returns null the entry is not published.
        entries = await client.GetEntries<EntryStateModel>($"?sys.id[in]={string.Join(",", sys.Select(c => c.Id))}");
    }

It’s extremely clunky and annoying. The bottom line is that the CDA/CPA simply do not expose a good way to know the status of an entry. If you’re using the CMA you can look at the PublishedVersion property and compare this to the Version and Revision fields to figure out whether the latest version of the entry is published or not.

jk123 · August 11, 2019, 2:42am

Hi @robert

Thanks for getting back to me with a solution, much appreciated.

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