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Content Importer, adding a block results in error

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Hi

I am using the new Content Importer to import an XML document into my site.

This fails with the following error:

Fatal error: Call to a member function getVersionID() on a non-object in concrete5/concrete/models/collection.php on line 795


The XML is as follows:

<concrete5-cif version="1.0">
   <pages>
      <page name="Short" path="/news/Short" filename="" pagetype="inner_page" description="Short" package="">
         <area name="Main Content">
            <block type="content" name="">
               <data table="btContentLocal">
                  <record>
                     <content><![CDATA[<p>Sidebar Content</p>]]></content>
                  </record>
               </data>
            </block>
         </area>
      </page>
   </pages>
</concrete5-cif>


The XML looks good but I am unsure why the error is occurring. Any ideas?

Jake
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BinaryFold4
Fixed.

It appears that once the page is added and blocks are then created the path/handle (rather than the cID) is used to identify the page further down the line for these areas and blocks. The issue is that if you enter an incorrect path/handle for the page e.g. "my--page" or "wibble wobble" or "this-page-exists-already" this is not flagged with an error but is parsed and used to create the page - which is fine.

The issue comes when the incorrect, not the newly parsed path/handle is then used when creating the blocks. A block is created and the Importer attempts to link the block to the page with the incorrect path/handle, but, oh no, the path isn't there because the handle is not the same. Thus resulting in no page being there for the new block and the error I posted earlier appearing.

This has only come about because I am parsing RSS feeds into pages and so the RSS Title is often poor which results in a poor path and therefore I have this issue. I have fixed it now by using the text helper handle() function.

Jake