TDS Post Deploy Step – Rebuild Content Search Indexes Script
This post shows how I created a custom TDS Post Deploy Step to rebuild the Content Search Indexes after my deployment in the Launch Sitecore TDS solution.
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My Custom Post Deploy Step:
Rebuild Content Search Indexes
Problem: As a developer, you may have added new fields to a Sitecore data template, or extended Sitecore with a custom index field. TDS makes it easy to get your changes deployed to other environments, however, you can’t begin querying these fields until a full index rebuild is performed. Deploying new code without an index rebuild can result in search listings coming up empty, or worse, broken pages.
Solution: Remove the manual and easy-to-forget task of rebuilding indexes by letting this Post Build step take care of things on your behalf.
Installation: Install the post build step using the instructions. Pass in one or more indexes to rebuild in the form of a comma separated list. (ex: sitecore_master_index,sitecore_web_index). This post build step can take a while to run so you’ll need to make sure TDS accounts for that.
using HedgehogDevelopment.SitecoreProject.PackageInstallPostProcessor.Contracts; using HedgehogDevelopment.SitecoreProject.PackageInstallPostProcessor.Utils; using Sitecore.ContentSearch; using Sitecore.ContentSearch.Maintenance; using Sitecore.Data; using Sitecore.Data.Items; using Sitecore.Data.Managers; using Sitecore.Globalization; using Sitecore.Publishing; using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Xml.Linq; namespace HedgehogDevelopment.TDS.CustomExtensions.PostBuildProcessors { public class RebuildContentSearchIndexes : IPostDeployAction { public void RunPostDeployAction(XDocument deployedItems, IPostDeployActionHost host, string parameter) { string[] indexNames = this.GetContentSearchIndexes(parameter); foreach (var indexName in indexNames) { var index = ContentSearchManager.GetIndex(indexName.Trim()); if (index == null) { host.LogMessage("The Content Search Index with name {0} supplied does not exist.", indexName); continue; } host.LogMessage("Rebuilding index {0}...", indexName); IndexCustodian.FullRebuild(index, true); host.LogMessage("Rebuild of index {0} complete", indexName); } } private string[] GetContentSearchIndexes(string parameters) { if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(parameters)) { throw new System.InvalidOperationException("Please specify a Sitecore Content Search index in the parameter"); } return parameters.Split(new char[] { ',' }, System.StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries); } } } |
