Configure Dynamic Data Store (10-11.2)
Describes how to set up the Dynamic Data Store.
Note
This content applies to Optimizely Content Management System (CMS) versions 10 through 11.2.
You have the following options to configure through the application’s configuration file:
The <episerver.dataStore> element has one child element called .
- The <dataStore> element has the child elements <providers> and <cache> and the following attributes:
defaultProvider
is the name of the Dynamic Data Store provider to use.
The name should correspond to an element with the same name in the element.autoResolveType
can be true (default) or false.
If set to true then the Dynamic Data Store tries to resolve .NET Types if theSystem.Type.GetType
method call fails for types stored in a store. The resolution is done by first removing the version information from the type string and callingType.GetType
again. If this fails, then the assembly information is removed from the type string andType.GetType
is called again. If theType
still is not resolved, an exception is thrown.
If this value is set to false, type resolving is done through assembly redirects in the configuration file.autoRemapStores
can be true (default) or false.
If this is set to true, then the Dynamic Data Store automatically remaps all .NET classes decorated with theEPiServerDataStoreAttribute
attribute and where the AutomaticallyRemapStore property is set to true, to their respective stores when the Class and store mappings are no longer aligned. If this value is set to false, no automatic remapping is done for any class.
- The <providers> elements contains a child <add> elements for each Dynamic Data Store provider available.
Currently, only a providers for Microsoft SQL Server is available. - The <cache> element contains a single <providers> child element and the following attributes:
defaultProvider
is the name of the Dynamic Data Store cache provider to use. The name should correspond to an element with the same name in the element.
- The <cache> <providers> elements contain a child <add> elements for each Dynamic Data Store cache provider available.
Currently, providers are available for HTTP Runtime and Null (no caching).
Recommendations
- Create/obtain instances of the
DynamicDataStore
on the stack, use them and then discard them. Note that the Dynamic Data Store is not thread safe and if an instance is used and shared between multiple threads, it should be protected with thread-locking techniques. - Implement
EPiServer.Data.IDynamicData
or aGuid
property called Id on your objects to be saved when you want to control the external identity of your objects. - Use the same instance of a Dynamic Data Store to load and then update a POCO object (object without identity).
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