Retrieve AEM Page Properties via Search/QueryBuilder API - aem

Question

Is there a way to retrieve data stored as page metadata (Page Properties) stored in a separate JCR node via the QueryBuilder API?
Example:
The search results should include the data under ~/article-1/jcr:content/thumbnail. However, the only results I am getting are data under the ~article-1/jcr:content/content (a parsys included on the template).
An example query:
http://localhost:4502/bin/querybuilder.json?p.hits=full&path=/content/path/to/articles
Results in (snippet):
{
"jcr:path":"/content/path/to/articles/article-1",
"jcr:createdBy":"admin",
"jcr:created":"Tue Dec 03 2013 16:26:51 GMT-0500",
"jcr:primaryType":"cq:Page"
},
{
"jcr:path":"/content/path/to/articles/article-1/jcr:content",
"sling:resourceType":"myapp/components/global/page/productdetail",
"jcr:lockIsDeep":true,
"jcr:uuid":"4ddebe08-82e1-44e9-9197-4241dca65bdf",
"jcr:title":"Article 1",
"jcr:mixinTypes":[
"mix:lockable",
"mix:versionable"
],
"jcr:created":"Tue Dec 03 2013 16:26:51 GMT-0500",
"jcr:baseVersion":"24cabbda-1e56-4d37-bfba-d0d52aba1c00",
"cq:lastReplicationAction":"Activate",
"jcr:isCheckedOut":true,
"cq:template":"/apps/myapp/templates/global/productdetail",
"cq:lastModifiedBy":"admin",
"jcr:primaryType":"cq:PageContent",
"jcr:predecessors":[
"24cabbda-1e56-4d37-bfba-d0d52aba1c00"
],
"cq:tags":[
"mysite:mytag"
],
"jcr:createdBy":"admin",
"jcr:versionHistory":"9dcd41d4-2e10-4d52-b0c0-1ea20e102e68",
"cq:lastReplicatedBy":"admin",
"cq:lastModified":"Mon Dec 09 2013 17:57:59 GMT-0500",
"cq:lastReplicated":"Mon Dec 16 2013 11:42:54 GMT-0500",
"jcr:lockOwner":"admin"
}
Search configuration is the out-of-the-box default.
EDIT: Data is returning in JSON, however, is not accessable in the API:
Result:
{
"success":true,
"results":2,
"total":2,
"offset":0,
"hits":[
{
"jcr:path":"/content/path/to/articles/article-a",
"jcr:createdBy":"admin",
"jcr:created":"Tue Dec 03 2013 16:27:01 GMT-0500",
"jcr:primaryType":"cq:Page",
"jcr:content":{
"sling:resourceType":"path/to/components/global/page/productdetail",
"_comment":"// ***SNIP*** //",
"thumbnail":{
"jcr:lastModifiedBy":"admin",
"imageRotate":"0",
"jcr:lastModified":"Wed Dec 04 2013 12:10:47 GMT-0500",
"jcr:primaryType":"nt:unstructured"
}
}
},
{
"jcr:path":"/content/path/to/articles/article-1",
"jcr:createdBy":"admin",
"jcr:created":"Tue Dec 03 2013 16:26:51 GMT-0500",
"jcr:primaryType":"cq:Page",
"jcr:content":{
"sling:resourceType":"path/to/components/global/page/productdetail",
"_comment":"// ***SNIP*** //",
"thumbnail":{
"jcr:lastModifiedBy":"admin",
"imageRotate":"0",
"fileReference":"/content/dam/path/to/IBMDemo/apparel/women/wsh005_shoes/WSH005_0533_is_main.jpg",
"jcr:lastModified":"Mon Dec 09 2013 17:57:58 GMT-0500",
"jcr:primaryType":"nt:unstructured"
}
}
}
]
}
Implementation code:
searchCriteria.put("path", path);
searchCriteria.put("type", "cq:Page");
searchCriteria.put("p.offset", offset.toString());
searchCriteria.put("p.limit", limit.toString());
searchCriteria.put("p.hits", "full");
searchCriteria.put("p.properties", "thumbnail");
searchCriteria.put("p.nodedepth", "2");
PredicateGroup predicateGroup = PredicateGroup.create(searchCriteria);
Query query = queryBuilder.createQuery(predicateGroup, session);
SearchResult result = query.getResult();
for (Hit hit : result.getHits()) {
try {
ValueMap properties = hit.getProperties();
VFSearchResult res = new VFSearchResult();
res.setUrl(hit.getPath());
res.setImageUrl((String)properties.get("thumbnail"));
res.setTags((String[])properties.get("cq:tags"));
res.setTeaserText((String)properties.get("teaserText"));
res.setTitle((String)properties.get("jcr:title"));
searchResults.add(res);
} catch (RepositoryException rex) {
logger.debug(String.format("could not retrieve node properties: %1s", rex));
}
}

Answer 1

After setting the path in the query, then set one or more property filters, such as in this example:
type=cq:Page
path=/content/path/to/articles
property=jcr:content/thumbnail
property.operation=exists
p.hits=selective
p.properties=jcr:content/thumbnail someSpecificThumbnailPropertyToRetrieve
p.limit=100000
You can set those on /libs/cq/search/content/querydebug.html and then also use that to get the JSON URL for the same query.
Check this out for some other examples: http://dev.day.com/docs/en/cq/5-5/dam/customizing_and_extendingcq5dam/query_builder.html

Answer 2

You could use CURL to retrieve node properties in the HTML/ JSON/ XML format. All you have to do is install download CURL and run your curl commands from your terminal from the same directory as the curl's .exe file.
HTML example:
C:\Users\****\Desktop>curl -u username:password http://localhost:4502/content/geometrixx-media/en/gadgets/leaps-in-ai.html
JSON example:
**C:\Users\****\Desktop>**curl -u username:password http://localhost:4502/content/geometrixx-media/en/gadgets/leaps-in-ai.html.tidy.infinity.json
Note: infinity in the above query ensures you get every property of every node under your specified path recursively