Is there a good way of programmatically pulling back a list of Content Items from Orchard?
At the moment I'm doing this, which returns a ContentPartRecord and the Title, but it's not pretty by any means:
public IEnumerable<LookupViewModel> Lookup(string searchText)
{
var items = _contentManager
.Query<MyItemPart, MyItemPartRecord>()
.Join<TitlePartRecord>()
.Where(x => x.Title.Contains(searchText))
.OrderBy(x => x.Title)
.List();
return items
.Select(x => new LookupViewModel()
{
Text = x.Name,
Value = x.Id.ToString()
});
}
Any pointers to related documentation would be greatly appreciated, there's very little in this regard for Orchard.