DX: Add BlockValue
constructors to force correct property editor alias and layout item type
#16266
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PR #16184 fixed the
BlockValue
implementation when serializing/deserializing, but creating a new value still required you to use the correct property editor alias and layout item type. For example, it was easy to get the following wrong:Although the CMS codebase only manually creates these values in tests, users might want to programmatically create them. One use case is the Deploy artifact migrators, e.g. if you want to migrate Nested Content to Block List.
With this PR applied, you can use the new constructor overloads to specify the layout, which automatically uses the correct property editor alias (from the abstract property) and forces you to use the correct layout item type: