Publishing System

Sitefinity publishing system allows you to expose data from your application or to consume data from other application. In both case, you must implement data conversion between different formats and apply business logic.

To overcome this problem, Sitefinity publishing system uses pipes to transfer the data from the source to Sitefinity and from Sitefinity to the destination in identical format.

The core components of Sitefinity publishing system are:

• Publishing point - accumulates data from different sources

• Inbound pipe - transfers data from source to publishing point

• Outbound pipe - transfers data from publishing point to destination

The data is coming from the inbound pipes into the publishing point and after that is processed by the outbound pipes.

Every time when you save item with the Fluent API, Sitefinity creates a Schedule Task that invokes the publishing system in a background thread.

Sitefinity allows you to create custom pipes or modify build-in pipes.

The section focuses on the following:

• Pipe types - describes the pipe and publishing point types

• Pipe components - base components that form the pipe

• Publishing system API - describes the base classes and methods when working with pipes

• Creating custom pipe - describes the basic steps when creating custom pipe