Question

Is there a way to gracefully check whether a page exists in EpiServer CMS 5 (given a pageId integer) without having to catch the PageNotFoundException thrown by

DataFactory.Instance.GetPage(pageReference)

(EpiServer will happily create a PageReference using a non existing pageId).

Surely I can check whether a page exists without throwing an exception or doing a massive loop?

Answer 1

[EPiServer CMS 5 R2 SP2] No, not without bypassing the page cache and that is more expensive than catching the exception.

Answer 2

I find it nice to do the catching in an extension method:

public static bool TryGetPage(this PageReference pageReference, out PageData pd)
{
    try
    {
        pd = DataFactory.Instance.GetPage(pageReference);
        return true;
    }
    catch (Exception)
    {
        pd = null;
        return false;
    }
}

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