In this post I would like to share an example of implementing a custom SqlAuthorizationProvider for a Sitecore solution. First things first, you have to really consider using it for a large solution, it’s a customization for accessing items for users and roles and it’s a core functionality of Sitecore XM – this provider is called every time (if no cache hit), when anyone tries to get access to an item – with Experience Editor, Content Editor, Sitecore Item API, etc.).
Web API JSON result schema testing with PowerShell and Git Hook
On a current project I am working on, we are implementing quite a few web APIs which is consumed by different frontend applications. The project is still in the beginning, but we thought it would be cool to ensure the API response JSON schema does not change accidentally by a developer. Therefore, I started to look into different solutions and just found the simplest one.
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A few days ago we have been hit by an Experience Editor issue with Next.js. It was already working and configured locally before. So the investigation began, where (Sitecore repository or Next.js repository) and which commit is causing the issue. On the Sitecore side we started to check with simple and low data components and in this case all was working as expected – Experience Editor rendered and worked. Alright, this means something is probably going on on the frontend side. I started to check which commit introduced the bug, by using git bisect – which I never heard of, until Bálint Csák talked about it.
Sitecore Headless – How to reuse Layout Service serialization in custom API Controllers
On one of our current project we have a close deadline, therefore we need to simplify implementation and cut from the scope as much as possible to roll out the MVP with the full functionality but without Experience Editor support – as it’s not priority for now. We had a long discussion about this, the main reason of cutting scope is to keep the frontend simple as possible and focus on business logic functionality instead of editing experience. Therefore on the Sitecore side we are providing a few APIs for the frontend and not creating any layout, rendering and placeholders; only pure templates and content.
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In my previous posts I showed how you can extend the Layout Service and implement your own custom Contents Resolvers. Until now I simply wanted to serialize all non-standard Sitecore fields with its values. Although there could be a case where you need to include or exclude fields from the Layout Service response.
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A few weeks ago the following question came up by Robbert Hock on Sitecore Chat:
Contents Resolver question: with
Robbert HockContext.HttpContext.Request.Params["item"]I can read the url of the item. But when for example we have a url like/news?page=1, how would I read the page querystring prop in a contents resolver? Somehow I can’t find it, since the request is like/sitecore/api/layout/render/default
This is a fair question, if you would like to process custom parameters in your custom Contents Resolver.
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When you create a Sitecore Next.js project you will notice there is a configuration file generated, called next.config.js. This config holds different Sitecore related config entries, but in this post I would like to focus on the async rewrites() method. This is a Next.js feature, to handle rewrites in the app. Rewrites can be useful for several things. By default Sitecore uses rewrites to proxy the media and some Sitecore API requests.
Sitecore Headless Next.js – Generic component based external API response processing
Since Sitecore Headless and Composable DXP jumped in to our life, designing and architecting Sitecore solutions are changing. The integration layer is moving to the frontend layer and stays decoupled from Sitecore.
On the current project we are working on, almost all Sitecore components have to call different API routes to enrich the Sitecore component with data coming from these external sources. As it’s a requirement to almost all of our components, it makes sense to design a generic solution for serving the merged data to the frontend. I want to thank Richárd Palkó, we designed and implemented this generic solution together and thank you for guiding me on getting familiar with TypeScript, Next.js and React 🙏.
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On one of my first Sitecore Headless project I got a requirement to implement a dynamic URL resolving to display product data from a different root of the Sitecore tree. If it would have been a traditional Sitecore solution I could implement a custom item resolver but in the headless world we need a different kind of mindset to solve problems like this.
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On my current project we are struggling of updating multiple repositories after we are pushing a new version of our custom NuGet packages. A solution could be to use floating versions but I wanted more control over the versions, because there could be cases where I need different versions on each solutions. Therefore I went in the direction to update the versions manually on a developer machine. This way, pull requests needs to be opened for each package updates, but this is great because I want all developers aware of the changes.
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