Nucache Explorer

A desktop utility to view and explore Umbraco V8+ Nucache files which cannot be viewed with a text editor, hence a need for this tool.

NuCache.Explorer.Server

The web API is a self contained OWIN/Katana console application, similar to how newer .NET Core apps can be run.

This approach was needed to be used, due to the third party library for storing items in the dictionary (aka nucache) does not support .NET Standard

For more info on the approach, read the tutorial here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/aspnet/overview/owin-and-katana/an-overview-of-project-katana

Example API Request

http://localhost:5698/api/Nucache/GetNuCacheData?filePath=C:\\Code\\Umbraco-CMS\\src\\Umbraco.Web.UI\\App_Data\\NuCache.Content.db

Example API Response

{
	"Items": [
		{
			"ContentTypeId": 1061,
			"DraftData": {
				"CultureInfos": {
					"da-dk": {
						"date": "2018-07-09T10:59:14.377Z",
						"name": "Home DK"
					},
					"en-us": {
						"date": "2018-07-09T10:58:25.23Z",
						"name": "Home US"
					},
					"fr-fr": {
						"date": "2018-07-09T11:40:21.3136994+01:00",
						"name": "I am FR Home"
					}
				},
				"Name": "Home US",
				"Properties": {
					"siteName": [
						{
							"culture": "",
							"seg": "",
							"val": "Warrens Variation Website"
						}
					],
					"welcomeMessage": [
						{
							"culture": "en-us",
							"seg": "",
							"val": "<p>Hello from the USA</p>"
						},
						{
							"culture": "da-dk",
							"seg": "",
							"val": "<p>This is some DK welcome message</p>"
						},
						{
							"culture": "fr-fr",
							"seg": "",
							"val": "<p>Hello from FR</p>"
						}
					]
				},
				"Published": false,
				"TemplateId": 1060,
				"VersionDate": "2018-07-09T11:40:21.36Z",
				"VersionId": 18,
				"WriterId": -1
			},
			"Node": {
				"ChildContentIds": [],
				"CreateDate": "2018-07-09T10:58:25.34Z",
				"CreatorId": -1,
				"DraftData": null,
				"Id": 1067,
				"Level": 1,
				"ParentContentId": -1,
				"Path": "-1,1067",
				"PublishedData": null,
				"SortOrder": 0,
				"Uid": "73cbde24-84cf-484d-8621-9d2534bb910c"
			},
			"PublishedData": {
				"CultureInfos": {
					"da-dk": {
						"date": "2018-07-09T10:59:14.377Z",
						"name": "Home DK"
					},
					"en-us": {
						"date": "2018-07-09T10:58:25.23Z",
						"name": "Home US"
					},
					"fr-FR": {
						"date": "2018-07-09T11:40:21.3136994+01:00",
						"name": "I am FR Home"
					}
				},
				"Name": "Home US",
				"Properties": {
					"siteName": [
						{
							"culture": "",
							"seg": "",
							"val": "Warrens Variation Website"
						}
					],
					"welcomeMessage": [
						{
							"culture": "en-us",
							"seg": "",
							"val": "<p>Hello from the USA</p>"
						},
						{
							"culture": "da-dk",
							"seg": "",
							"val": "<p>This is some DK welcome message</p>"
						},
						{
							"culture": "fr-fr",
							"seg": "",
							"val": "<p>Hello from FR</p>"
						}
					]
				},
				"Published": true,
				"TemplateId": 1060,
				"VersionDate": "2018-07-09T11:40:21.36Z",
				"VersionId": 18,
				"WriterId": -1
			}
		}
	],
	"StopClock": 27,
	"TotalItems": 1
}