Route to BLOB properties

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BLOB property routing is a partial routing implementation that extends routing for any content beyond pages. Append the BLOB property name to a content URL to access the BLOB directly.

The URL pattern is CONTENT_URL/BLOB_PROPERTY_NAME.

The following content model defines a Thumbnail BLOB property on ImageData:

/// <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; set; }
}

For an image with the URL http://site/GlobalMedia/Images/someimage.png, access the Thumbnail BLOB property at http://site/GlobalMedia/Images/someimage.png/thumbnail. The ImageDescriptor attribute generates the thumbnail BLOB when the value is null.