API changes in Sitefinity CMS 7.3

Pages

The following methods:

Search

• Manager, Provider - abstraction has been removed - from now on ISearchService should be used and an instance of it could be obtained from ServiceBus.ResolveService method.
• SearchService is now replaced by LuceneSearchService (and there are 2 new services ElasticsearchService and AzureSearchService)
• IField/Field value is now changed from string to object in order to support all scenarios.
• IDocument - GetValue method returns object (instead of string).
• Document class constructor has changed signature (as one of the parameters - mappings is useless).
• Document is no longer ICustomTypeDescriptor
• In Additional properties for search - HTML is no longer stripped
• Azure with Lucene is no longer forbidden and does not throw an exception (because there might be a way to use shared folder)
• Document namespace changed - Telerik.Sitefinity.Services.Search.Publishing to Telerik.Sitefinity.Services.Search.Model
• SearchService - no field/document factory methods - use new Field/document instead
•  In the SearchResults class, the GetMetaField public method is now returning object instead of string:
  public object GetMetaField(object, string)
• The Search method in the ISearchService interface is now getting only one parameter - ISearchQuery:
  

  IResultSet Search(ISearchQuery query);

  To obtain instance of ISearchQuery, use:

  var queryBuilder = ObjectFactory.Resolve<IQueryBuilder>();
  var compiledQuery = queryBuilder.BuildQuery(searchTerm, searchFields);

  Then pass it to the search service, in the following way:

  searchService.Search(compiledQuery);
  This change affects all classes that implement the ISearchService interface as AzureSearchService. ElasticsearchService and LuceneSearchService.

• Also the GetValue method and the Value property are now returning object instead of a string:
  public object Value
  public object GetValue(string)

Permissions

IManager interface has a new RestorePermissionsInheritance() method. The Implementation should call the provider implementation of this method. For example:

this.Provider.RestorePermissionInheritance(securedObject);