Sending The Content of a Document Type Via UmbracoApiController

Question

How Can i OutPut the published Content of a Certain Document Type via Web Api?

Example: I have a Document Type Called

Comment

its has three Properties "Name, Date, Text" I Want To output the Values of those Properties to a UmbracoApiController So that I can Use it in other WebSites any thoughts ? Thanks in Advance

 public class  publishedContentapiController  : UmbracoApiController
{
    //What Logic To Put Here In Order to get the Content OF published 
   // Document Types With the Alias "comment" 
}

Answer 1

The below code outputs all documents of type "comment" through the webapi

public class  publishedContentapiController  : UmbracoApiController
{
    public IHttpActionResult GetComments()
    {
        // Create an UmbracoHelper for retrieving published content
        var umbracoHelper = new UmbracoHelper(UmbracoContext.Current);

        // Get all comments from the Umbraco tree (this is not a optimized way of doing this, since it queries the complete Umbraco tree)
        var comments = umbracoHelper.TypedContentAtRoot().DescendantsOrSelf("comment");     

        // Map the found nodes from IPublishedContent to a strongly typed object of type Comment (defined below)
        var mappedComments = comments.Select(x => new Comment{
            Name = x.Name,                              // Map name of the document
            Date = x.CreatedTime,                       // Map createdtime
            Text = x.GetPropertyValue<string>("text")   // Map custom property "text"
        });

        return Ok(mappedComments);
    }


    private class Comment
    {
        public string Name { get; set; }
        public DateTime Date { get; set; }
        public string Text { get; set; }
    }
}

Diclaimer: Code is untested and obviously needs refactoring