From a171a44db862638d3876fbfe4ab699f13daccb7f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kevin Jump <kevin@jumoo.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2020 12:06:00 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Generic IgnoreAlias setting for all handlers - stops them
 being imported completely.  #178

---
 .../SyncHandlers/SyncHandlerRoot.cs              | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)

diff --git a/uSync8.BackOffice/SyncHandlers/SyncHandlerRoot.cs b/uSync8.BackOffice/SyncHandlers/SyncHandlerRoot.cs
index 63fa893f..1f53a815 100644
--- a/uSync8.BackOffice/SyncHandlers/SyncHandlerRoot.cs
+++ b/uSync8.BackOffice/SyncHandlers/SyncHandlerRoot.cs
@@ -576,6 +576,22 @@ virtual protected bool ShouldImport(XElement node, HandlerSettings config)
                     return false;
                 }
             }
+
+
+            // Ignore alias setting. 
+            // if its set the thing with this alias is ignored.
+            var ignore = config.GetSetting<string>("IgnoreAliases", string.Empty);
+            if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(ignore))
+            {
+                var ignoreList = ignore.ToDelimitedList();
+                if (ignoreList.InvariantContains(node.GetAlias()))
+                {
+                    logger.Debug(handlerType, "Ignore: Item {alias} is in the ignore list", node.GetAlias());
+                    return false;
+                }
+            }
+
+
             return true;
         }