do you have BookVariant metaclass created? It sounds to me there has been a problem with it

Is this what you mean? Can I try to recreate it or create a new for testing?

/Rickard

Can you try setting EntryType = "Variation"?

I tried this and got the same error.

var model = new Entry
{
Code = "111111",
Catalog = "Books",
EndDate = DateTime.UtcNow.AddDays(100),
EntryType = "Variation",
InventoryStatus = "Enabled",
IsActive = false,
MetaClass = "BookVariant",
Name = "Test 111111",
StartDate = DateTime.UtcNow
};

Then I agree with Quan that smthing wrong with meta class BookVariant. Can you create a similar one for testing?

I would suggest to try these steps:

• First restart your website to make sure the content types and metaclasses are properly mapped, and try again
• If it still does not work, can you try to add a strongly typed content type for BookVariant?

Hi,

I have restarted the website, still getting error.

I created a new metaclass and got the same error.
I tried with another metaclass that we created in the beginning of the project. Same error.

We have this class for BookVariant. It has worked earlier:

[CatalogContentType(
GUID = "D7C2DC51-74C7-4CB8-A6F4-79CA9A0DD980",
MetaClassName = "BookVariant",
DisplayName = "Book Variant",
Description = "Display book variant")]
public class BookVariant : ByggtjanstVariantBase
{
//properties
}

public class ByggtjanstVariantBase : VariationContent
{
}

The one thing that might have changed is BookVariant inheriting from ByggtjanstVariantBase instead of VariationContent. Could that cause problems?

Thanks,
Rickard

That's strange. I'll try to reproduce at my side...

Hi,

ByggtjanstVariantBase should not be the problem here.

Could you check if the contentTypeModel in the following snippet code is not null?

var metaClassId = MetaClass.Load(CatalogContext.MetaDataContext, "BookVariant");

var contentTypeModel = ServiceLocator.Current.GetInstance<MetaClassToContentTypeMap>().GetContentTypeModel(metaClassId);

Thanks,

contentTypeModel is not null when I run your code snippet.

And is the contentTypeModel pointed to the BookVariant class correclty? (you can check the contentTypeModel.Name)

You could also check the content type if it's correct:

var contentType = ServiceLocator.Current.GetInstance<IContentTypeRepository>().Load(contentTypeModel);

It's weird when it throws that error while the contentTypeModel is correct. I haven't reprocedured it on my local yet...

Hi!

I checked contentType. It returns the correct class.

@Rickard: I'd suggest you to contact developer support service. When we are able to reproduce the problem we will be able to say more.

I was able to look into your setup, and the investigation shows that your BookVariant (and other strongly typed content types ) were not present in the context of ServiceAPI site, which was required as ServiceAPI 5.0 switched to strongly typed content type internally).

We should probably have documented this. However to fix the problem you can have two options:

• Either move your content types to a separated project and deploy it to bin folder of ServiceAPI, which is the preferred method 
• Or just deploy your dll to bin folder (along with dependencies), and add this setting  <add key="episerver:serviceapi:maphttpattributeroutes" value="false" /> to appSettings of ServiceAPI web.config (which is specific to your site because yours seems to register the attribute routes itself.

Hi!

Sorry for late reply. I had to test this several times to believe that it worked  and it does work now.

Thank you for your help!!

Rickard