[CODES] Adobe CQ5 code snippets – Cheat Sheet

Code Snippets

To get list of selectors in an array

String[] selectors = slingRequest.getRequestPathInfo().getSelectors();

To get a page from a path

Page page = pageManager.getPage(path);

To get any containing page for a resource

Page page = pageManager.getContainingPage(resourceResolver.getResource(path));

To get a session in JSP

final SlingRepository repos = sling.getService(SlingRepository.class);
session = repos.loginAdministrative(null);

To get query object and run a query

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String stmt = "select * from cq:Page where jcr:path like '/content/training/%' and contains(*, '" + slingRequest.getParameter("q") + "') order by jcr:score desc";

Query query = currentNode.getSession().getWorkspace().getQueryManager().createQuery(stmt, Query.SQL);

QueryResult results = query.execute();

Get node from path

Node n = session.getItem(path); // where session = JCR session
session.save();

resourceResolver.commit();
session.logout();

Add a property to node

Node n = parent.addNode(…);
n.setProperty(“prop-name”,”value”);

Java Code

Creating a logger instance

private static final Logger LOGGER = LoggerFactory.getLogger(ReplicationLogger.class);

Sending an Event

@Reference
EventAdmin eventAdmin

public void sendEventTo(){

org.osgi.service.event.Event event = new Event(EventTopic, <object>);

eventAdmin.sendEvent(event);

}

To get page manager

final PageManager pm = resourceResolver.adaptTo(PageManager.class);

To get repository

@Reference
SlingRepository repository;

Get session from repository

session = repository.loginAdministrative(null);

JSP Code

Get a property of component directly:

$properties[‘backgroundImageComp/bgImage’]