Question

To be specific, I’m going to use Orchard CMS as a back-end for content editors for an existing website.

My website is too complicated to wrap it into an Orchard custom Module, so I decided to use stand-alone instance of Orchard as backend, and query and show content items manually in the code of my side.

I want to find the way how I could get content items from Orchard using it’s API.

Here is some pseudocode I want to achieve:

// somewhere in my site, not in the Orchard application

IOrchardServices orchardFacade = CreateOrchardSystemSomeWay();

IContentManager contentManager = orchardFacade.ContentManager;

var myNeededItems = contentManager.Query("MyContenItemType").ToList();

I have troubles with the implementation of CreateOrchardtSystemSomeWay.

Did anyone try to implement such a way of accessing Orchard CMS data?

Another alternative is to use the database directly, but it would not be very nice approach.

Answer 1

I havent attempted to do this, but the way I thought I would have done this if I tried would be to create an abstraction between Orchard and your system through a service like WCF, some sort of anti corruption layer.