Sitecore ItemBinding TDS Code Generation Templates

This is just a short post to announce that I have released a set of Team Development for Sitecore T4 code generation templates for Sitecore ItemBinding.

The templates are fairly basic but hopefully they will serve as a useful starting point for creating your own customized templates.

There are three different model class templates with the following setup.

ItemBindingSeperateTemplate

This template will create a model class for each Sitecore template with a public ID field for each of the fields on the Sitecore template without handling base template inheritance.

namespace ItemBinding.CodeGeneration.Framework.News.Data
{
	///<summary>
	///Generated partial class for the template __NewsDatasource with no base template relations
  ///</summary>
  [global::System.CodeDom.Compiler.GeneratedCodeAttribute("Team Development for Sitecore - ItemBindingSeparateTemplates.tt", "1.0")]
  [RequiredBaseTemplate("{1cc5a9bb-6aed-4ee9-8b4e-39f740a726e6}")] // __NewsDatasource
	public partial class NewsDatasource : ItemModel
	{
    public NewsDatasource(Item item) : base(item)
    {
    }

    public readonly ID MaxNumberOfNewsFieldId = new ID("{66b83bfc-2672-4951-8849-4d7ae9909930}");
  }
}

ItemBindingCombinedTemplates

This template will create a model class for each Sitecore template with a public ID field for each of the fields on the Sitecore template itself and additionally for all fields on inherited base templates to create one single combined model class.

namespace ItemBinding.CodeGeneration.Framework.News.Data
{
  ///<summary>
  ///Generated partial class for the template __NewsDatasource with combined base template relations
  ///</summary>
  [global::System.CodeDom.Compiler.GeneratedCodeAttribute("Team Development for Sitecore - ItemBindingCombinedTemplates.tt", "1.0")]
  [RequiredBaseTemplate("{1cc5a9bb-6aed-4ee9-8b4e-39f740a726e6}")] // __NewsDatasource
  [RequiredBaseTemplate("{e43aab30-676b-4b5e-9614-1856e2ffc9d4}")] // __NewsPlacementsSelector
  public partial class NewsDatasource : ItemModel
  {
    public NewsDatasource(Item item) : base(item)
    {
    }

    public readonly ID MaxNumberOfNewsFieldId = new ID("{66b83bfc-2672-4951-8849-4d7ae9909930}");
    public readonly ID SelectedNewsPlacementsFieldId = new ID("{7b92d1bb-756f-417b-88ca-83037f833c95}");
  }
}

ItemBindingCompositeTemplates

This template will create a model class for each Sitecore template with a public ID field for each of the fields on the Sitecore template. In addition to this a property with the appropriate model class type will be added for each inherited base template to form a model class with base template inheritance through composite classes. This is pretty close to a has-a relationship in object oriented programming.

namespace ItemBinding.CodeGeneration.Framework.News.Data
{
  ///<summary>
  ///Generated partial class for the template __NewsDatasource with composite base template relations
  ///</summary>
  [global::System.CodeDom.Compiler.GeneratedCodeAttribute("Team Development for Sitecore - ItemBindingCompositeTemplates.tt", "1.0")]
  [RequiredBaseTemplate("{1cc5a9bb-6aed-4ee9-8b4e-39f740a726e6}")] // __NewsDatasource
  [CompositeType(typeof(ItemBinding.CodeGeneration.Framework.News.Data.NewsPlacementsSelector))]
  public partial class NewsDatasource : ItemModel
  {
    public NewsDatasource(Item item) : base(item)
    {
    }

    public readonly ID MaxNumberOfNewsFieldId = new ID("{66b83bfc-2672-4951-8849-4d7ae9909930}");

    public ItemBinding.CodeGeneration.Framework.News.Data.NewsPlacementsSelector NewsPlacementsSelector
    {
      get { return _newsPlacementsSelector ?? (_newsPlacementsSelector = InnerItem.BindAs<ItemBinding.CodeGeneration.Framework.News.Data.NewsPlacementsSelector>()); }
    }
    private ItemBinding.CodeGeneration.Framework.News.Data.NewsPlacementsSelector _newsPlacementsSelector;
  }
}

The templates are available at GitHub https://github.com/BoBreiting/SitecoreItemBinding or through NuGet - search for itembinding tds

Notice

The templates uses some of the include files from the official Hedgehog tds-codegen project available at GitHub https://github.com/HedgehogDevelopment/tds-codegen so be sure to grab a copy of the project.

I hope that these templates will prove useful to someone and any feedback is welcome.