Route to BLOB

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Routing to BLOB properties is an implementation of partial routing, which lets you extend routing for any content beyond pages.

The URL pattern to route to a BLOB property is <content url>/BlobPropertyName.

Consider the following content model:

/// <summary>
/// Base class for content types which should be handled as images by the system.
/// </summary>
public class ImageData: MediaData {
  /// <summary>
  /// Gets or sets the generated thumbnail for this media.
  /// </summary>
  [ImageDescriptor(Width = 48, Height = 48)]
  public override Blob Thumbnail {
    get {
      return base.Thumbnail;
    }
    set {
      base.Thumbnail = value;
    }
  }
}

Suppose there is an image created in CMS with a URL like http://site/GlobalMedia/Images/someimage.png. You can route to the thumbnail BLOB property on the image by the URL http://site/GlobalMedia/Images/someimage.png/thumbnail. Because the property has the attribute ImageDescriptor, the thumbnail BLOB is generated automatically if it is null.