A quick look into the JCR Search API (AEM)
The JCR Search API allows us to query data located in the AEM Java Content Repository (JCR) using a SQL like grammar. To be able to use the JCR Search API, first we need to get access to the Session instance. Thus we can get the QueryManager...
Having a glimpse at the WCM Search API and the Query Builder (AEM)
Search Class The searching capabilities of the com.day.cq.wcm.foundation package are exposed through the Search class. According to the documentation “The Search class implements the search logic used in the foundation searching...
A quick look to Services in AEM
Services are a great way to share information between several components of your application and are relatively easy to implement. Let’s start by implementing a very simple service. This tutorial assumes that the reader knows...
How to use external redirects in Adobe Experience Manager?
Sometimes we require to redirect request to old or deprecated pages in our sites to new versions of that page or to a totaly different site. For instance, lets suppose that we decided to redirect the page http://my.site.com/myoldpage...
Reducing the size of your AEM instance
By default, AEM uses Tar files to store the nodes and binaries of the application. One characteristic of using Tar files for storage is that the changes are never overwritten even if we are only updating data, which continually increases...
Responsive layouting in AEM
Responsive layouting allows you to add components inside a responsive grid which give you the ability to: Change the width of the component based on columns Push down a component Hide a component
How to use internal redirects in AEM? (Part 2)
Specifying the domain As we saw earlier, in the first part of this post series, we can specify the matching URL of our mappings with the sling:match attribute e.g. “mydomain.com/news”. We can also specify the domain outside the...
How to use internal redirects in AEM?
We are migrating a Ruby on Rails based Application to Adobe Experience Manager, one of the requirements requested by the client was to take out the “content” word of the URL. We first though in using vanity URLs, but we...
Parsing Ransack strings to SQL queries in Golang
Recently we were working on migrating a Rails app to Go but, just before we started working, we realized that the app we were migrating used ransack to do some basic search. We looked for a library that could do the same thing in Go...
Reducing the number of error handling “if” statements (if != nil)
When I started learning Go, my code usually ended up looking like this: func GetDataFromFile(fileUri string) (*Data, error) { file, err := os.Open(fileUri) if err != nil{ return nil, err } fileBytes, err := ioutil.ReadAll(file) if...