Unable to retrieve dictionary items by id (DictionaryCacheRefresherNotification)

[jveer]

Which Umbraco version are you using? (Please write the exact version, example: 10.1.0)

15.1.2

Bug summary

I'm currently working on a custom caching layer for dictionary items, in which I want to use the DictionaryCacheRefresherNotification. However, this notification only provides the integer id:

Before we were able to retrieve the dictionary items by the id through the ILocalizationService, but that service is obsolete. The new IDictionaryItemService only allows to retrieve by Guid or ItemKey.

If Umbraco doesn't want to use the integer id's anymore, I think the notification needs to be updated to include the Guid, ItemKey or both.

Specifics

No response

Steps to reproduce

See summary

Expected result / actual result

Being able to retrieve the dictionary item based on the object passed in DictionaryCacheRefresherNotification.

[github-actions]

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[kjac]

Thanks for reaching out @jveer ... I'll have a look at this and come back with a path forward 👍

[kjac]

Quick follow-up on this one.

We will eventually be moving away from publicly facing integer IDs. This is a process, and it takes time. And we need to ensure that the "data journeys" that are currently tied to integer IDs have a path to move to GUID keys instead. Specifically for notifications, this is likely to be quite breaking, although we still aim to come up with something that allows for a graceful transition at the consumer side.

For the time being, you'll have to use the deprecated ILocalizationService to fetch dictionary items by their IDs. We have flagged it internally as "do not remove" until we've found a solution here.