How to copy properties from source node to destination node in cq - aem

I want to get Some Property from Source Node Using getProperties() and setProperty in another Destination Node. How can i check that property is protected or not.As if i copy all the property in destination it gives me ConstraintViolationException

You'd need to get the definition of the property:
PropertyDefinition propDefinition = node.getProperty("/yourprop").getDefinition();
on the definition you can call isProtected():
Boolean isPropertyProtected = propDefinition.isProtected();
or just inline it:
node.getProperty("/yourprop").getDefinition().isProtected();
for further reading I suggest:
http://www.day.com/specs/jcr/2.0/16_Access_Control_Management.html;
Chapter 16.3.12 Interaction with Protected Properties
And the JCR documentation on node types:
http://jackrabbit.apache.org/jcr/node-types.html

This is probably because you are trying to copy all properties which includes cq:primaryType as well. If you see in crx, these basic properties are not editable.
For copy you can take a specific property and set a specific property, instead of copying and pasting all the properties.

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Best practice for using variables to configure and create new Github repository instance in Terraform instead of updating-in-place

I am trying to set up a standard Github repository template for my organization that uses Terraform to spin up new repos with the configured settings.
Every time I try to update the configuration file to create a new instance of the repository with a new name, instead it will try to update-in-place any repo that was already created using that file.
My question is what is the best practice for making my configuration file reusable with input variables like repo name? Should I make a module or is there some way of reusing that file otherwise?
Thanks for the help.
Terraform is a desired-state-configuration system, which means that your configuration should represent the full set of objects that should exist rather than an instruction to create a single object.
Therefore the typical way to add a new repository is to add a new resource block declaring that new repository, and leave the existing ones unchanged. Terraform will then see that there's a new resource not currently tracked in the state and will propose to create it.
If your repositories are configured in some systematic way that you can describe using a mechanical rule rather than manual configuration then you can potentially use the for_each meta-argument to declare multiple resource instances from the same resource block, using Terraform language expressions to describe the systematic rule.
For example, you could create a local value with a higher-level data structure that describes what should be different between your repositories and then use that data structure with for_each on a single resource block:
locals {
repositories = tomap({
example_1 = {
description = "First example repository"
}
example_2 = {
description = "Second example repository"
}
})
}
resource "github_repository" "all" {
for_each = local.repositories
name = each.key
description = each.value.description
private = true
}
For simplicity in this example I've only made the name and description variable between the instances, but you can add whatever extra attributes you need for each of the elements of local.repositories and then access them via each.value inside the resource block.
The private argument above illustrates how this approach can avoid the need to re-state argument values that will be the same for each declared repository, and have your local.repositories data structure focus only on the minimum attributes needed to describe the variations you need for your local policies around GitHub repositories.
A resource block with for_each set appears as a map of objects when used in expressions elsewhere, using the same keys as in the map given in for_each. Therefore if you need to access the repository ids, or any other attribute of the systematically-declared objects, you can write Terraform expressions that work with maps. For example, if you want to output all of the repository ids as a map of strings:
output "repository_ids" {
value = tomap({
for k, r in github_repository.all : k => r.repo_id
})
}

Disable logging on FileConfigurationSourceChanged - LogEnabledFilter

I want Administrators to enable/disable logging at runtime by changing the enabled property of the LogEnabledFilter in the config.
There are several threads on SO that explain workarounds, but I want it this way.
I tried to change the Logging Enabled Filter like this:
private static void FileConfigurationSourceChanged(object sender, ConfigurationSourceChangedEventArgs e)
{
var fcs = sender as FileConfigurationSource;
System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine("----------- FileConfigurationSourceChanged called --------");
LoggingSettings currentLogSettings = e.ConfigurationSource.GetSection("loggingConfiguration") as LoggingSettings;
var fdtl = currentLogSettings.TraceListeners.Where(tld => tld is FormattedDatabaseTraceListenerData).FirstOrDefault();
var currentLogFileFilter = currentLogSettings.LogFilters.Where(lfd => { return lfd.Name == "Logging Enabled Filter"; }).FirstOrDefault();
var filterNewValue = (bool)currentLogFileFilter.ElementInformation.Properties["enabled"].Value;
var runtimeFilter = Logger.Writer.GetFilter<LogEnabledFilter>("Logging Enabled Filter");
runtimeFilter.Enabled = filterNewValue;
var test = Logger.Writer.IsLoggingEnabled();
}
But test reveals always the initially loaded config value, it does not change.
I thought, that when changing the value in the config the changes will be propagated automatically to the runtime configuration. But this isn't the case!
Setting it programmatically as shown in the code above, doesn't work either.
It's time to rebuild Enterprise Library or shut it down.
You are right that the code you posted does not work. That code is using a config file (FileConfigurationSource) as the method to configure Enterprise Library.
Let's dig a bit deeper and see if programmatic configuration will work.
We will use the Fluent API since it is the preferred method for programmatic configuration:
var builder = new ConfigurationSourceBuilder();
builder.ConfigureLogging()
.WithOptions
.DoNotRevertImpersonation()
.FilterEnableOrDisable("EnableOrDisable").Enable()
.LogToCategoryNamed("General")
.WithOptions.SetAsDefaultCategory()
.SendTo.FlatFile("FlatFile")
.ToFile(#"fluent.log");
var configSource = new DictionaryConfigurationSource();
builder.UpdateConfigurationWithReplace(configSource);
var defaultWriter = new LogWriterFactory(configSource).Create();
defaultWriter.Write("Test1", "General");
var filter = defaultWriter.GetFilter<LogEnabledFilter>();
filter.Enabled = false;
defaultWriter.Write("Test2", "General");
If you try this code the filter will not be updated -- so another failure.
Let's try to use the "old school" programmatic configuration by using the classes directly:
var flatFileTraceListener = new FlatFileTraceListener(
#"program.log",
"----------------------------------------",
"----------------------------------------"
);
LogEnabledFilter enabledFilter = new LogEnabledFilter("Logging Enabled Filter", true);
// Build Configuration
var config = new LoggingConfiguration();
config.AddLogSource("General", SourceLevels.All, true)
.AddTraceListener(flatFileTraceListener);
config.Filters.Add(enabledFilter);
LogWriter defaultWriter = new LogWriter(config);
defaultWriter.Write("Test1", "General");
var filter = defaultWriter.GetFilter<LogEnabledFilter>();
filter.Enabled = false;
defaultWriter.Write("Test2", "General");
Success! The second ("Test2") message was not logged.
So, what is going on here? If we instantiate the filter ourselves and add it to the configuration it works but when relying on the Enterprise Library configuration the filter value is not updated.
This leads to a hypothesis: when using Enterprise Library configuration new filter instances are being returned each time which is why changing the value has no effect on the internal instance being used by Enterprise Library.
If we dig into the Enterprise Library code we (eventually) hit on LoggingSettings class and the BuildLogWriter method. This is used to create the LogWriter. Here's where the filters are created:
var filters = this.LogFilters.Select(tfd => tfd.BuildFilter());
So this line is using the configured LogFilterData and calling the BuildFilter method to instantiate the applicable filter. In this case the BuildFilter method of the configuration class LogEnabledFilterData BuildFilter method returns an instance of the LogEnabledFilter:
return new LogEnabledFilter(this.Name, this.Enabled);
The issue with this code is that this.LogFilters.Select returns a lazy evaluated enumeration that creates LogFilters and this enumeration is passed into the LogWriter to be used for all filter manipulation. Every time the filters are referenced the enumeration is evaluated and a new Filter instance is created! This confirms the original hypothesis.
To make it explicit: every time LogWriter.Write() is called a new LogEnabledFilter is created based on the original configuration. When the filters are queried by calling GetFilter() a new LogEnabledFilter is created based on the original configuration. Any changes to the object returned by GetFilter() have no affect on the internal configuration since it's a new object instance and, anyway, internally Enterprise Library will create another new instance on the next Write() call anyway.
Firstly, this is just plain wrong but it is also inefficient to create new objects on every call to Write() which could be invoked many times..
An easy fix for this issue is to evaluate the LogFilters enumeration by calling ToList():
var filters = this.LogFilters.Select(tfd => tfd.BuildFilter()).ToList();
This evaluates the enumeration only once ensuring that only one filter instance is created. Then the GetFilter() and update filter value approach posted in the question will work.
Update:
Randy Levy provided a fix in his answer above.
Implement the fix and recompile the enterprise library.
Here is the answer from Randy Levy:
Yes, you can disable logging by setting the LogEnabledFiter. The main
way to do this would be to manually edit the configuration file --
this is the main intention of that functionality (developers guide
references administrators tweaking this setting). Other similar
approaches to setting the filter are to programmatically modify the
original file-based configuration (which is essentially a
reconfiguration of the block), or reconfigure the block
programmatically (e.g. using the fluent interface). None of the
programmatic approaches are what I would call simple – Randy Levy 39
mins ago
If you try to get the filter and disable it I don't think it has any
affect without a reconfiguration. So the following code still ends up
logging: var enabledFilter = logWriter.GetFilter();
enabledFilter.Enabled = false; logWriter.Write("TEST"); One non-EntLib
approach would just to manage the enable/disable yourself with a bool
property and a helper class. But I think the priority approach is a
pretty straight forward alternative.
Conclusion:
In your custom Logger class implement a IsLoggenabled property and change/check this one at runtime.
This won't work:
var runtimeFilter = Logger.Writer.GetFilter<LogEnabledFilter>("Logging Enabled Filter");
runtimeFilter.Enabled = false/true;

Deleting a property in AEM 5

I am trying to delete a property of a node. I could manually do it in the crx explorer but there is just way to many properties that I need to delete. Below is the sample code that is currently working. However just changing its value will not solve what I am trying to accomplish. Therefore my question is:
How can I delete a property of a node?
void deleteJob(Node node, Session jcr) throws RepositoryException {
Node jobDescNode = (Node)jcr.getItem(node.getPath() + "/jcr:content/contentpar/jobsdescription");
if(jobDescNode.hasProperty("foo")) {
jobDescNode.setProperty("foo", "null");
jcr.save();
}
}
It looks like you are setting the value of the property to "null" instead of removing the property.
Use
jobDescNode.setProperty("foo", (String)null);
Check the Node API for more info.

Getting properties from AEM multifieldpanel dialog stops working when a second entry is added

I have created an AEM Dialog which prompts the user for a set of links and labels.
These links and labels are stored in a jcr node and are used to generate a menu.
To avoid having to create a custom xtype, I am using the acs-commons multifieldpanel solution, which enables me to nest children under the fieldConfig node.
This works great with only 1 Label/Link pair, but when I add a second one - the property cannot be fetched anymore, since instead of a String, it returns the String hashcode.
The property generated by the multifieldpanel in the jcr node is of type String and is filled correctly when inspecting in CRXDE. The problem occurs when I try to fetch the value from within a Sightly HTML file.
Code
Dialog:
Definitions.js:
"use strict";
use(function () {
var CONST = {
PROP_URLS: "definitions",
};
var json = granite.resource.properties[CONST.PROP_URLS];
log.error(json);
return {
urls: json
};
});
Log output
1 element in multifieldpanel
jcr node variable content
definitions: {"listText": "facebook", "listPath": "/content/en"}
log output
{"linkText":"facebook","linkPath":"/content/en"}
Multiple elements in multifieldpanel
jcr node variable content
definitions: {"listText": "facebook", "listPath": "/content/en"},{"listText": "google", "listPath": "/content/en"}
log output
[Ljava.lang.String;#7b086b97
Conclusion
Once the multifieldpanel has multiple components and stores it, when accessing the property the node returns the String hashcode instead of the value of the property.
A colleague has pointed out that I should use the MultiFieldPanelFunctions class to access the properties, but we are using HTML+Sightly+js and are trying to avoid .jsp files at all cost. In JavaScript, this function is not available. Does anyone have any idea how to solve this issue?
That is because, when there is a single item in the multifield, it returns a String, where as it returns a String[] when there is more than a single item configured.
Use the following syntax to read the property as a String array always.
var json = granite.resource.properties[CONST.PROP_URLS] || [];
Additionally, you can also use TypeHints to make sure your dialog saves the value as String[] always, be it single item or multiple items that is configured.
Don't forget that the use() in JS is compiled into Java Byte code and if you are reading Java "primitives", make sure you convert them to JS types. It's part of the Rhino subtleties.
On another note, I tend to not use the granite.* because they are not documented no where, I use the Sightly global objects instead https://docs.adobe.com/content/docs/en/aem/6-0/develop/sightly/global-objects.html
To access properties, I use properties.get("key")
Hope this help.

How do I add properties to a js-data object that I don't want persisted?

I'm using js-data (and js-data-angular) in conjunction with sockets via sails.js. When a new item is created/updated via sockets I want to call attention to it in my ui.
I'd like to add an "updated" property to the object, but don't want to inadvertently persist it to the DB.
Is there a way to hang non-persisting properties on a js-data object?
Yes.
You can set this globally on the data store or per-resource by using the omit configuration setting. For instance, when instancing your data store, you can instruct JSData to ignore all properties that begin with an underscore:
var store = new JSData.DS({ omit: [ /^_/ ] });
The documentation for the meta property of the options passed to store.defineResource says:
Put anything you want here. It will never be used by the API.