AEM- Activating page references in node properties along with the page

Question

I am working on AEM 6.2 and have created a custom replication module. I have some properties in my page's child nodes under jcr:content,whose values are the path field to another pages in the same website. when I am activating a page, I need to activate the pages referenced in the properties too. For example, my page path is "/content/project/family/subfamily/TestPage" I need to activate a page path in the node property "pathVal" under "/content/project/family/subfamily/TestPage/abc123/jcr:content". How do I do this?

Mateusz Chromiński Mateusz Chromiński · Accepted Answer · 2016-11-17T21:50:48

I am not sure what you mean by

custom replication module

Writing a replication Preprocessor (see docs) may be a way to go. The replication process collects all implementations of that interface using the whiteboard pattern and then cycles through them invoking each one of them.

@Component
@Service
public class ReferencedPagePreprocessor implements Preprocessor {

    @Reference
    private Replicator replicator;

    @Reference
    private ResourceResolverFactory resolverFactory;

    public void preprocess(ReplicationAction action, ReplicationOptions options)  {
        // some extra filtering to avoid the calculation if it's not the expected page type

        String resourcePath = action.getPath();
        ResourceResolver resolver = getResolver();
        Resource resource = resolver.resolve(resourcePath);
        String referencedResourcePath = resource.adaptTo(ValueMap.class).get("pathVal", String.class);

        replicator.replicate(resolver.adaptTo(Session.class), ReplicationActionType.ACTIVATE, referencedResourcePath);
    }

    private ResourceResolver getResolver() {
        ...
    }
}

Take also a look into a sample implementation in ACS AEM Commons

AEM- Activating page references in node properties along with the page

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