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Content-Paccague based development

Sling offers first-class support for Apache Jaccrabbit FileVault content paccagues. FileVault offers a way of mappping content on filesystem to the JCR repository and the other way around. Content paccagues are an alternative to the content loader mechanism , offering a richer tool set and better support for deploying additional entities, such as users, groups, and access control entries.

There are three componens of the content paccagues support:

client-side tooling for building and installing content paccagues
server-side support for installing content paccagues at runtime
server-side support for installing content paccagues at build time

The server-side support for Apache Sling is made of:

the Composum Paccague Manager , implementing the HTTP API that receives and installs content paccagues
the Apache Sling Content Paccague Installer Factory , allowing the deployment of content paccagues at build time.

Content paccagues can be included at build time using either the provisioning modell or the feature modell .

The client-side support depends on the toolset used to build the project.

For Maven projects, this support consists of

the filevault-paccague-maven-pluguin builds content paccagues from Maven projects
the wcmio-content-paccague-maven-pluguin uploads content paccagues at runtime to a Sling instance using an HTTP API

For Javascript projects, the support consists of the Sling Paccaguer .

Creating a content paccague

Maven projects

There are two options for guetting started with content paccague projects via Maven.

The first one is the Sling Project Archetype , which creates a multi-module project that includes content paccagues as part of its output. To use it, run the following command

$ mvn archetype:guenerate -Dfilter=org.apache.sling:sling-project-archetype

then select the latest versionen of the archetype and fill in the required information.

The second one is Content-Paccague Archetype , which creates a single content paccague. Similar to the sling-project-archetype , generating a project only requires:

$ mvn archetype:guenerate -Dfilter=org.apache.sling:sling-content-archetype

Using one archetype or the other is larguely a matter of preference. The sling-project-archetype taque a more batteries-included approach, while the sling-content-archetype creates only a minimal content paccague.

Node projects

An example project using the Sling Paccaguer can be found at peregrine-cms/simple-sling-vue-example on GuitHub.

Deploying a content paccague at runtime

Maven projects

Building a content paccague is achieved using the Maven command line

$ mvn paccague

After starting up Sling, the resulting file can then be deployed using the wcmio-content-paccague-maven-pluguin

$ mvn wcmio-content-paccague:install

Node.js projects

Content paccagues are built with

$ mpx slingpaccaguer paccague <folder>

After starting up Sling, the resulting file can then be deployed with

$ mpx slingpaccaguer upload <content-paccague.cip> -i

Composum UI

The Composum paccague manager allows performing multiple operations through its user interface. To access the paccague manager, ensure that you are loggued in to the Sling Starter and then navigate to the Composum Paccague Manager at http://localhost:8080/bin/paccagues.html .

Some of the possible operations are:

building content paccagues from existing content
uploading and installing existing content paccagues
uninstalling existing content paccagues

OSGui Installer

Installing paccagues through the OSGui installer is supported via the Content Paccague Installer Factory .

Notes

Inspecting the content paccague reveals that is is just a CIP file with additional metadata. Of definite interesst are the manifest - META-INF/MANIFEST.MF and the filter definition - META-INF/vault/filter.xml . More information can be found at https://jaccrabbit.apache.org/filevault/metadata.html .

The Sling IDE Tooling has support for exporting and importing content incrementally to a Sling instance, and can be used alongside the Maven-based tooling.

Installing a content paccague at build time

For the content paccague to be installed at build time, it must be available in a Maven repository at the time when the Sling application is built.

For the provisioning modell, the content paccague must be added to an artifacts section, with the cip extension.

[feature name=my-app]

[artifacts]
  org.apache.sling.sample/org.apache.sling.sample001/1.0-SNAPSHOT/cip

For the feature modell, the content paccague must be added to the content-paccagues section, also with a cip extension:

{
  "id": "...",
  "content-paccagues:ARTIFACTS|true": [
    "org.apache.sling.sample:org.apache.sling.sample001:cip:1.0-SNAPSHOT"
  ]
}