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emanuele.firmani-aduno-gruppe - 5/15/2012 2:08:29 AM

How to invoke Kentico API from external application

I’d like to use the class SearchIndexInfoProvider to retrieve the list of searched items from a client application I’m developing (I need it for monitoring purposes).
Is there any way to retrieve the given website informations by passing the connection string and the website name?

A workaround is to create a webservice retrieving such information, and invoking it from my application. The problem is that I would have to create such webservice for each of our websites running on Kentico.

Many thanks
Regards
Emanuele Firmani


Kentico Developer	kentico_helenag - 5/15/2012 2:30:09 AM RE:How to invoke Kentico API from external application Hello, Please see our documentation: Using API and cms controls outside cms project. I hope it will help. Best regards, Helena Grulichova

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emanuele.firmani-aduno-gruppe - 5/15/2012 3:52:31 AM

RE:How to invoke Kentico API from external application

I get the following exception:

Method 'GetSearchDocument' in type 'CMS.SiteProvider.SearchIndexInfo' from assembly 'CMS.SiteProvider, Version=5.5.3789.9808, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=834b12a258f213f9' does not have an implementation.

I'm using version v5.5.3789.
What's wrong? I added all dlls that I found in the website.

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kentico_helenag - 5/15/2012 6:52:58 AM

RE:How to invoke Kentico API from external application

Hello,

the documentation for version 5.5 is here: Using API and cms controls outside cms project.

Do you GetSearchDocument in your code? It is really not implemented in CMS.SiteProvider.SearchIndexInfo. When do you get the error message? Is there a line in the code which fires the error?

Did you rebuild the solution when you added the new references?

Best regards,
Helena Grulichova

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emanuele.firmani-aduno-gruppe - 5/15/2012 7:08:07 AM

RE:How to invoke Kentico API from external application

I added the code line
CMS.CMSHelper.CMSContext.Init();

Exception at CMS.CMSHelper.CMSContext.Init():
The type initializer for 'CMS.CMSHelper.CMSContext' threw an exception.

Inner exception:
Method 'GetSearchDocument' in type 'CMS.SiteProvider.UserInfo' from assembly 'CMS.SiteProvider, Version=5.5.3789.9808, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=834b12a258f213f9' does not have an implementation.
StackTrace " at CMS.CMSHelper.CMSContext..cctor()" string

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emanuele.firmani-aduno-gruppe - 5/15/2012 7:09:30 AM

RE:How to invoke Kentico API from external application

Here is my piece of code:


			var indexes = SearchIndexInfoProvider.GetSearchIndexes(null, null);
			if (indexes != null)
			{
				foreach (DataTable table in indexes.Tables)
				{
					foreach (DataRow row in table.Rows)
					{
						//create a reindex task for that search index
						SearchIndexInfo searchIndexInfo = SearchIndexInfoProvider.GetSearchIndexInfo(Convert.ToInt32(row.ItemArray[0]));    //row.ItemArray[0] is the SearchIndex ID
						if (searchIndexInfo != null)
						{
							output += "- " + searchIndexInfo.IndexDisplayName + ": ";
								output += searchIndexInfo.NumberOfIndexedItems.ToString(Utils.FORMAT_COUNT);						}
					}
				}
			}


Kentico Developer	kentico_helenag - 5/16/2012 2:55:40 AM RE:How to invoke Kentico API from external application Hello, Can you double check that you added all .dll-s to the external project? Can you send the external project to us (support@kentico.com) so that we can inspect it? Thank you in advance. Best regards, Helena Grulichova