How can I check if an item in “CheckedOut|Permanent” lock is checked out with the Core Service?

Question

I have a versioned item and its info object and I need to see whether it's checked out or not, however, when I view its info.LockType.Value, I see it has assigned "CheckedOut|Permanent". How can I compare against it? I've tried comparing against LockType.CheckedOut or LockType.Permanent and each returns false.

FullVersionInfo info = (FullVersionInfo)versionedItem.VersionInfo;

if (info.LockType.Value == LockType.CheckedOut)
{
     // I am not getting here when item is "CheckedOut|Permanent"}

Answer 1

In the backend it's a .NET enum with the "Flags" attribute specified so it's value can be a combination of the enum values.

Try this:

info.LockType.Value.HasFlag(LockType.CheckedOut)

Notice HasFlags was introduced in .NET 4.0, in older versions of .NET you have to use bit operations to check a specific bit.

Something like this:

(info.LockType.Value & LockType.CheckedOut) != 0

Answer 2

As of SDL Tridion 2013 you do not need to use FullVersionInfo. Now each of the RepositoryLocalObject items has LockInfo. So you can use component.LockInfo.LockType, for example.

Answer 3

Many thanks for all the answers! As it turns out, the following code also accomplishes what I am looking for, as it will detect all possible locks an item can acquire.

if (LockType.None != info.LockType)
 { ...  }

Answer 4

As Andrey mentions, this can now be done using the LockInfo property on the item.

I've just successfully implemented this using the following code:

RepositoryLocalObjectData item = Client.Read(itemId, new ReadOptions { LoadFlags = LoadFlags.Expanded}) as RepositoryLocalObjectData;

//It the item is locked for any reason (Checked-out, in Workflow, etc.) then don't try to process it
if (item.LockInfo.LockType.Value != LockType.None)
{
    //Do something here.
}

Hope this helps.