Sitecore task for multilingual site in single node

Question

I have a multilingual site with single node approach. Requirement is simple, need to create a task to fetch all items and generate a XML file.

I have created a Sitecore scheduled job and command and implemented the logic for generating XML in C#. It is generating the XML file as expected. But the only issue is it is not generating for different languages in the site, rather than its generating only for single language and that's English.

For example I have a node with two languages English and French. I created a scheduled job and written a logic to fetch all item names in the node and generates an XML file. But I need two separate XML file. One must holds the information in English version and another must be in French version.

Things I have tried:

• Created same task in both English and French version and tried setting it in different interval time.

• Created same command in both English and French version.

..

public void Hook(Item[] items, Sitecore.Tasks.CommandItem command, Sitecore.Tasks.ScheduleItem schedule) 
{ 
    var appSettings = new FetchAppSetting(); 
    using (new DatabaseSwitcher(Sitecore.Configuration.Factory.GetDatabase("web"))) 
    { 
        if (command.ID.ToString() == appSettings.Config.CommandId) 
        { 
            Settings SettingsItem = null; SettingsItem = new Settings(commandId); 
            //..and my logic for generating XML goes here.. 
        } 
    } 
}

Please do let me know if I'm making any mistakes on the above steps or give your suggestions to make it proper if I'm wrong.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

If I had to implement such functionality, I would have created a schedule job only with below implementation

public class XmlGenerator()
{
    public string Database { get; set; }

    public string SitePath { get; set; }

    public List<string> ItemLanguages { get; set; }

    public XmlGenerator(string sitePath, string database, string language)
    {
        this.SitePath = sitePath;
        this.Database = database;
        this.ItemLanguages = language.Split('|').ToList();  
    }

    public void Run()
    {
        var database = Factory.GetDatabase(this.Database);

        // Add logic to create 1 file for each loop in the ItemLanguage 
        foreach(var itemLanguage in this.ItemLanguages)
        {
            using (new Sitecore.Globalization.LanguageSwitcher(itemLanguage))
            {
                var itemList = database.GetItem(this.SitePath, Language.Parse(itemLanguage)).Axes.GetDescendants().ToList();

                foreach(var item in itemList)
                {
                    // Your logic for generating the XML goes here
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

And the patch file for the agent as follows

<agent name="XML Generator Agent" type="YourNamespaceHere, YourAssembly" method="Run" interval="00:00:00">
    <param hint="1" desc="sitePath">sitecore/content/my site</param>
    <param hint="3" desc="database">master</param>
    <param hint="4" desc="language">en|fr-FR</param>
</agent>

If you don't want to pass in the language, then you will need to get the different versions of the item.

public class XmlGenerator()
{
    public string Database { get; set; }

    public string SitePath { get; set; }

    public XmlGenerator(string sitePath, string database)
    {
        this.SitePath = sitePath;
        this.Database = database;
    }

    public void Run()
    {
        var itemList = Factory.GetDatabase(this.Database).GetItem(this.SitePath).Axes.GetDescendants().ToList();

        foreach(var item in itemList)
        {
            foreach (var itemLanguage in item.Languages)
            {
                // Your Logic for generating the XML goes here
            }
        }
    }
}

And the agent config file will be as shown below

<agent name="XML Generator Agent" type="YourNamespaceHere, YourAssembly" method="Run" interval="00:00:00">
    <param hint="1" desc="sitePath">sitecore/content/my site</param>
    <param hint="3" desc="database">master</param>
</agent>