Not easy/obvious how to check which type of Link has been chosen in templates

[ghost]

Is there a simpler way to check what type of Link has been chosen other than something like this?

{% if block.ctaButton.className == 'flipbox\\craft\\link\\types\\Entry' %}

[nateiler]

At the moment, that would be the only way to uniquely identify by type.

There is also {% if block.ctaButton.displayName() == 'Entry' %} but that's not unique and also gets translated. Depending on your scenario it may be another route.

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I'm happy to introduce another mechanism that's a little more user friendly; I just need to keep third party link types in mind.

Off the top of my head I thought of introducing another attribute getShortType() or getType(). It wouldn't result in a unique reference, but you would know the link types installed and could handle appropriately. By default, this would produce the last part of a class name. Ex 'flipbox\craft\link\types\Entry' => 'Entry'.

To elaborate on the non-unique short type reference; someone could create their own link type with the class: your\namespace\Url which would result in two 'Url' short types (the other would come from 'flipbox\craft\link\types\Url'). Again something the developer would know and can account for; a rare scenario I assume.

Thoughts?

[ghost]

Hi Nate,

Thanks for your response! I definitely understand your point about the non-unique short type references.

For my purposes, your proposed solution would work. I was more or less looking for something like that when I gave up and used the long form check.

Whatever you feel is best works for me. I've solved my problem with the solution in my initial post, but I bet it would save others some time if the type checking were simpler and more obvious.

Thanks again!