Creating a Bundle and adding items to it with Core Service

Question

I am experimenting with creating bundles and adding items to them using the Core Service, and am struggling to find examples of this.

I seem to recall someone telling me that bundles are actually virtual folders, so this is where I got to

    VirtualFolderData bundle = (VirtualFolderData)client.GetDefaultData(Tridion.ContentManager.CoreService.Client.ItemType.VirtualFolder, bundleFolderURI, new ReadOptions());
    bundle.Title = itemID;
    bundle.Description = "test";
    client.Create(bundle, new ReadOptions());

But this fails with a message "No content found". Can anyone point me in the right direction with an example of creating bundles, and adding items to the bundle?

Answer 1

Chris, I think.. To make it a Bundle you need to change TypeSchema to be a Bundle Schema and set another Configuration XML:

var bundle = (VirtualFolderData) client.GetDefaultData(ItemType.VirtualFolder, "tcm:2-3-2", new ReadOptions());
bundle.Configuration = "<Bundle xmlns=\"http://www.sdltridion.com/ContentManager/Bundle\"><Items /></Bundle>";
bundle.TypeSchema = new LinkToSchemaData{IdRef = "tcm:0-2-8"};
client.Create(bundle, new ReadOptions());

And to add items to the Bundle:

public static VirtualFolderData AddItemsToBundleConfiguration(this VirtualFolderData bundle, IList<string> itemIdsToAdd)
{
  XDocument doc = XDocument.Parse(bundle.Configuration);
  XNamespace xmlns = "http://www.sdltridion.com/ContentManager/Bundle";
  XNamespace xlink = "http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink";

  foreach (var itemId in itemIdsToAdd)
  {
    XElement newItemNode = new XElement(xmlns + "Item",
        new XAttribute(XNamespace.Xmlns + "xlink", xlink),
        new XAttribute(xlink + "href", itemId)
    );
    doc.Descendants(xmlns + "Items").First().Add(newItemNode);
  }

  bundle.Configuration = doc.ToString();
  return bundle;
}

Read the complete story at Andrey Marchuk's blog.

NOTE: that the TypeSchema is not the Bundle Schema - Andrey explains that part here