Not able to rebuild models

[dev810vm]

Getting the following message on synthesis.aspx. I'm using the default config files with minimal changes. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[blipson89]

Hi @dev810vm,

If this is a brand new setup of Synthesis, I'd recommend using Leprechaun for code generation. It's built to work with Synthesis and it is a lot more efficient and easy to work with. Synthesis code generation is flagged for deprecation and will be phased out eventually.

As for how to setup Synthesis code generation, you do need to setup some configuration registrars in order to identify modules. Have you run though the I'm using modular architecture. Will Synthesis support models across projects? section of the readme? That section has a link to the Example Habitat Configuration that shows how those registrars should work (NOTE: a config registrar should NOT be an abstract class.)

Thanks, Ben

[dev810vm]

Hi Ben, I did add a class to our project that implements the SynthesisConfigurationRegistration class. I then added a new patch file adding our assembly to the initialize pipeline but it's still telling me that no model configurations are registered. For the 8.2 instance of Sitecore I believe this was all being controlled through the configs, are all of the steps necessary for a single dll? Thanks, Jim

[blipson89]

If your solution is that simple, then you probably don't need a registrar.

The old way of using the <templateInputProvider> via the Synthesis.LocalConfig.config.example file should be all you need.

Have you tried that?

[dev810vm]

Yes, that's what I tried first. I see the settings in showconfig but the synthesis.aspx page still says that there's nothing registered.

[dev810vm]

Ok, So I upgraded to the 9.1.0.2 version and now it looks like it's trying to do a sync. But i'm getting the following error.

Could not load type 'Sitecore.UsedImplicitlyAttribute' from assembly 'Sitecore.Kernel, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null'.

[TypeLoadException: Could not load type 'Sitecore.UsedImplicitlyAttribute' from assembly 'Sitecore.Kernel, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null'.] System.ModuleHandle.ResolveType(RuntimeModule module, Int32 typeToken, IntPtr typeInstArgs, Int32 typeInstCount, IntPtr methodInstArgs, Int32 methodInstCount, ObjectHandleOnStack type) +0 System.ModuleHandle.ResolveTypeHandleInternal(RuntimeModule module, Int32 typeToken, RuntimeTypeHandle[] typeInstantiationContext, RuntimeTypeHandle[] methodInstantiationContext) +197 System.Reflection.RuntimeModule.ResolveType(Int32 metadataToken, Type[] genericTypeArguments, Type[] genericMethodArguments) +166 System.Reflection.CustomAttribute.FilterCustomAttributeRecord(CustomAttributeRecord caRecord, MetadataImport scope, Assembly& lastAptcaOkAssembly, RuntimeModule decoratedModule, MetadataToken decoratedToken, RuntimeType attributeFilterType, Boolean mustBeInheritable, Object[] attributes, IList derivedAttributes, RuntimeType& attributeType, IRuntimeMethodInfo& ctor, Boolean& ctorHasParameters, Boolean& isVarArg) +156 System.Reflection.CustomAttribute.GetCustomAttributes(RuntimeModule decoratedModule, Int32 decoratedMetadataToken, Int32 pcaCount, RuntimeType attributeFilterType, Boolean mustBeInheritable, IList derivedAttributes, Boolean isDecoratedTargetSecurityTransparent) +612 System.Reflection.CustomAttribute.GetCustomAttributes(RuntimeType type, RuntimeType caType, Boolean inherit) +209 Synthesis.Utility.TypeCollectionUtility.WithAttribute(IEnumerable1 types) +210 Synthesis.Synchronization.SynchronizationEngine.get_ModelDictionary() +94 Synthesis.Synchronization.SynchronizationEngine.IsTemplateSynchronized(ITemplateInfo template) +61 Synthesis.Synchronization.SynchronizationEngine.AreTemplatesSynchronized() +281 Synthesis.<>c__DisplayClass1_0.<CheckSyncAll>b__0(IProviderConfiguration configuration, TemplateGenerationMetadata metadata) +62 Synthesis.SynthesisHelper.ExecMetadataWithAutoFriending(IEnumerable1 configurations, Action`2 processAction) +523 Synthesis.SynthesisHelper.CheckSyncAll() +186 Synthesis.Pipelines.Initialize.CheckModelSynchronization.DoLogSync() +44 (Object , Object ) +9 Sitecore.Pipelines.CorePipeline.Run(PipelineArgs args) +490 Sitecore.Pipelines.DefaultCorePipelineManager.Run(String pipelineName, PipelineArgs args, String pipelineDomain, Boolean failIfNotExists) +236 Sitecore.Pipelines.DefaultCorePipelineManager.Run(String pipelineName, PipelineArgs args, String pipelineDomain) +22 Sitecore.Nexus.Web.HttpModule.Application_Start() +220 Sitecore.Nexus.Web.HttpModule.Init(HttpApplication app) +1165 System.Web.HttpApplication.RegisterEventSubscriptionsWithIIS(IntPtr appContext, HttpContext context, MethodInfo[] handlers) +584 System.Web.HttpApplication.InitSpecial(HttpApplicationState state, MethodInfo[] handlers, IntPtr appContext, HttpContext context) +168 System.Web.HttpApplicationFactory.GetSpecialApplicationInstance(IntPtr appContext, HttpContext context) +277 System.Web.Hosting.PipelineRuntime.InitializeApplication(IntPtr appContext) +369

[HttpException (0x80004005): Could not load type 'Sitecore.UsedImplicitlyAttribute' from assembly 'Sitecore.Kernel, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null'.] System.Web.HttpRuntime.FirstRequestInit(HttpContext context) +532 System.Web.HttpRuntime.EnsureFirstRequestInit(HttpContext context) +111 System.Web.HttpRuntime.ProcessRequestNotificationPrivate(IIS7WorkerRequest wr, HttpContext context) +724

[blipson89]

@dev810vm what version of Sitecore are you running exactly?

[dev810vm]

9.3 initial

[blipson89]

Can you check your codebase for UsedImplicitly and see if that appears anywhere? Can you also make sure that you don't have any DLLs from older versions of Sitecore in your bin directory?

[dev810vm]

Yep, There was an old Sitecore dll in the bin. Thanks for all your help! One last question, does the 9.1.0.2 version work with Sitecore 10 or are there plans to support it? Thanks again.

[blipson89]

Synthesis 9.1.0.2 has been tested with Sitecore 10 and does work. However, I would recommend switching to Leprechaun for model generation. The model generation portion of Synthesis hasn't been tested with Sitecore 10 because that part of the code is being phased out. It should still work, however.