Query all news items

When querying all news items, you must perform the following: 

  1. Query all items.
    Get a query of all available news items. The query includes all live, master, and temp versions. 
  2. Filter the query.
    Filter the query to return only the live versions.
  3. Get the items.
    Get the filtered items in a list.
  4. Return the items.
    Return the list of news items. 

The following code examples query all news items:

Query all news items with the Native API

 

First, you get an instance of the NewsManager class. You query all the news items, including the live, master, and temp versions of each item. You filter the collection to return only the live versions. Finally, you return the news items in a list.

Query all news items with the Fluent API

 

First, you get an instance of the plural news facade. Then you get all the news items, including the live, master, and temp versions of each item. You filter the collection to return only the live versions. Finally, you return the news items in a list. If no news items exist or there are no published news items, you return an empty list.

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