Unable to get Rendering datasource with query like local:/Data/ Teaser 1

Question

I am trying to get all rendering datasources added to an item. I used the below code

var renderings = InnerItem.Visualization.GetRenderings(InnerItem.Database.Resources.Devices.GetAll().Where(d
    => d.Name.ToLower() == "default").First(), true);

 var renderingReferences = renderings?.Where(r =>!String.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(r.Settings.DataSource)).ToList();

I see that datasources with static path are returned but those datasources for whom the path is like local:/Data/ Teaser 1 are returned empty.

Is there a way to get the value of such datasources(target item id) instead of returning an empty value?

Answer 1

If local or page relative SXA data sources are not resolved you need to resolve them manually. Run resolveRenderingDatasource pipeline:

ResolveRenderingDatasourceArgs renderingDatasourceArgs = new ResolveRenderingDatasourceArgs(YOUR_DATA_ROURCE_STRING);
renderingDatasourceArgs.CustomData.Add("contextItem", CONTEXT_ITEM);
CorePipeline.Run("resolveRenderingDatasource", renderingDatasourceArgs);

string resolvedDataSource = renderingDatasourceArgs.Datasource;