{"id":22888,"date":"2020-02-20T12:37:21","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T12:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/?p=22888"},"modified":"2020-02-20T12:37:21","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T12:37:21","slug":"programmatically-validate-pre-post-plugin-step","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/programmatically-validate-pre-post-plugin-step\/","title":{"rendered":"Programmatically validate Pre\/Post plugin step"},"content":{"rendered":"

Introduction<\/strong><\/h2>\n

In this blog, we will see how to programmatically check whether plugin step already exists or not for both Pre & Post stage.<\/p>\n

We came across this situation when we received a requirement, where we had to programmatically register plugins. Well, the registration piece was quite easy, however, we struggled to see if the step was already registered or not.<\/p>\n

For this, we came up with the following solution:
\nIn order to check whether the plugin already exists or not we need to retrieve entity with specific attributes.<\/p>\n

 \/\/Variables\r\nQueryByAttribute _Query = null;\r\n\r\nRetrieveMultipleRequest _Request = null;\r\n\r\nRetrieveMultipleResponse _Response = null;\r\n\r\nEntityCollection _EntityColl = null;\r\n\r\nEntity _Entity = null;\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\n\/\/Code\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\n_Query = new QueryByAttribute();\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\n_Request = new RetrieveMultipleRequest();\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\n_Query.EntityName = \u201caccount\u201d;\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\n_Query.ColumnSet = new ColumnSet(_RetrieveColumns);\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\n_Query.Attributes.AddRange(_FilterByColumns);\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\n_Query.Values.AddRange(_FilterByColumnsValue);\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\n_Request.Query = _Query;\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\n_Response = (RetrieveMultipleResponse)_CrmWebService.Execute(_Request);\r\n\r\n_EntityColl = _Response.EntityCollection;\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\n\/\/Check if the EntityCollection is not empty\r\n\r\nif (_EntityColl != null && _EntityColl.Entities.Count > 0)\r\n\r\n{\r\n\r\n_Tracing.Trace(\"Found entity\");\r\n\r\n\/\/Return the topmost entity of the entitycollection\r\n\r\n_Entity = (Entity)_EntityColl.Entities[0];\r\n\r\n}<\/pre>\n
\/\/Stage is added here to check plugin is added already on pre\/post operation for selected entity \u2013 we need to pass stage as an parameter<\/p>\n
In above example \u201c_RetrieveColumns\u201d contain columns need to be retrieve, \u201c_FilterByColumns\u201d contains filter attributes and \u201c_FilterByColumnsValue\u201d contains filter attributes values on which we want to check.<\/p>\n
_RetrieveColumns = new string[] { \"sdkmessagefilterid\" }\r\n\r\n_FilterByColumns = new string[] { \"plugintypeid\", \"sdkmessageid\", \"sdkmessagefilterid\", \"stage\"<\/strong>}\r\n\r\n_FilterByColumnsValue = new object[] { PluginTypeEntityRef.Id, SDKMessageIdRefrence.Id, SdkMsgFiltrEntityRef.Id, SdkStep.Stage.Value };<\/pre>\n
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Conclusion<\/h2>\n
Thus, with the above code you can programmatically check whether the plugin step is registered or not for pre\/post stage.<\/p>\n
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