How to get Descendants of a Sitecore item using Glass mapper?

Question

Is there any direct approach to get descendants(child items and sub child items) of a Sitecore item in Glassmapper model.

I know [SitecoreChildren] can be used in GlassMapper model to get Child items. Is there anything like [SitecoreChildren] we can use to get the descendants

Sitecore - Sitecore 8.1 Update 1 Glass Mapper - 4.1.2.67

Thanks

Answer 1

No, there is no option to get all the descendants with a simple Glass Mapper attribute.

You could use SitecoreQuery attribute in theory:

[SitecoreQuery(".//*")]

I'm not saying that getting all descendants is always wrong, but you really need to be careful when you want to use descendants. I guess that's the reason why it's not there as one of the Glass attributes.

The whole list of attributes was posted in another question here:

What are the options for Glass Mapper model attributes?