How to distinguish whether a page is published first time or multiple times in publish environment of Adobe CQ5 - aem

Question

I need to display labels "New" and "Updated" besides the links displayed on a page on my website.
For this I applied a logic of checking number of versions. If number of versions are more than 2 I displayed "updated" else i displayed "New". I am able to achieve it in the Author environment.
But in Publish environment, number of versions created for a page, even though the page is modified and republished, are one only. So how can i identify that whether the page is published first time or it has been published multiple times.

Answer 1

One suggestion to this is to implement you own servlet/listener that listens to the replication events. Look at the EventHandler and JobProcessor interfaces. This servlet could then for example set a property value on the component instance so that the component could be displayed different the first time. It could just be a small counter variable that keeps track of how many times the actualy thing has been published or some more fancy logic there :)
//imports
#Service...
#Component...
#Property(name = "event.topics", value = ReplicationAction.EVENT_TOPIC)
public class MyCustomEventHandler implements EventHandler, JobProcessor {
private static final Logger LOGGER = LoggerFactory.getLogger(MyCustomEventHandler.class);
#Override
public void handleEvent(Event event) {
LOGGER.info("Handling an event of some kind !!");
process (event);
}
#Override
public boolean process(Event event) {
LOGGER.info("Processing an event !!");
ReplicationAction action = ReplicationAction.fromEvent(event);
if (action.getType().equals(ReplicationActionType.ACTIVATE)) {
LOGGER.info("Processing an activation job, this is just what we are looking for !!!!!");
//Logic for fetching/setting the properties you want from the component you want
//goes here. Here you can make use of the action.getPath(); to get hold of the containing page
//and then later on any specific components...
}
return true;
}
}
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