Content type with Managed Metadata Feature receiver04

mmTermExtension.cs

/// <summary>
/// Extension to search for a term in a Termset
/// </summary>
public static class TermExtension
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Search for the term by its path
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="termset">The Termset where this path should be under</param>
    /// <param name="path">The path to the term fron the Termset</param>
    /// <returns>The <see cref="Term"/> it it's found</returns>
    public static Term GetTermByPath(this TermSet termset, String path)
    {
        Term result = null;
        string[] pathElements = path.Split(new Char[] { '/' }, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);

        int depth = 0;
        try
        {
            result = termset.Terms[pathElements[depth]];

            while (depth < pathElements.Length - 1)
            {
                depth++;
                result = result.Terms[pathElements[depth]];
            }
        }
        catch(Exception ex)
        {
            throw new ArgumentOutOfRangeException("Path", path, string.Format("Path not found; {0}", ex.Message));
        }
        return result;
    }
}