Working With Content Approval / Moderation In CSOM

Question

The SharePoint Object Model provides a property of an SPListItem called SPListItem.ModerationInformation.Status to allow you to determine the current content approval / moderation status if a document library has content approval enabled. The property ModerationInformation is an instance of the class SPModerationInformation and Status is an instance of the enum SPModerationStatusType.

How can I work with these objects / properties from the Client Side Object Model? The client side ListItem does not contain the ModerationInformation property like its server-side counter part.

Answer 1

Even though the CSOM ListItem class does not have a ModerationInformation property, I was able to access this value through the field's internal name:

ListItem item = file.Item;
clientContext.Load(item);
clientContext.ExecuteQuery();

int status = Convert.ToInt32(item["_ModerationStatus"]);

And the enum is defined as:

public enum SPModerationStatusType
{
    Approved, //0
    Denied,   //1
    Pending,  //2
    Draft,    //3
    Scheduled //4
 }

This got me where I needed to be.