CQ5 - Sling accessing nodes

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I'm a complete newb to this so I apologize in advance. I've got an instance of CQ5 set up and I can't figure out how to access specific nodes. So say I have a component with the path: /project/components/content/leftsidebar but I want to access properties of another node here: /content/dam/campaign

I know the properties.get method works but only if your within that node properties.get("title", "placeholder");

I'm a complete newb so please post code samples were possible.

Thanks!

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javaaemsling

1 Answers

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You'd want to use the ResourceResolver in order to get the resource that you're looking for. From there, you can adapt it to a ValueMap & read its properties:

ResourceResolver resourceResolver = slingRequest.getResourceResolver();
Resource campaignResource = resourceResolver.getResource("/content/dam/campaign");
ValueMap campaignProperties = campaignResource.adaptTo(ValueMap.class);
String title = campaignProperties.get("title", "placeholder");

You can read more about accessing properties on the Apache Sling website. Remember, CQ5 is Sling under the hood, so it's a great resource & you're still a level of abstraction above accessing the JCR directly.