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HuiDeShao
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October 18, 2021
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Can the firefly project access AEM Assets api?

  • October 18, 2021
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Hi all,
    I have one investigation requirement to check if there is a way to access Assets api from Jira or other external projects. When I am looking into firefly project, it looks like it is feasible. But, I cannot find any useful docs. Any suggestions?
    Thanks.

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Best answer by shelly-goel

Yes Assets API can be used in App Builder.

An example action snippet for folder creation below:

const token = getBearerToken(params);
apiEndpoint = `${aemEndpoint.value}/api/assets/${params.folderPath}`;
      const raw = JSON.stringify({
        class: 'assetFolder',
        properties: {
          'jcr:title': `${params.folderTitle}`,
        },
      });
      res = await fetch(apiEndpoint, {
        method: 'post',
        headers: {
          Authorization: `Bearer ${token}`,
          'Content-Type': 'application/json',
        },
        body: raw,
      });
 
token generation code snippet:
function getBearerToken(params) {
  const { __ow_headers: OwHeaders = {} } = params;

  if (
    OwHeaders &&
    OwHeaders.authorization &&
    OwHeaders.authorization.startsWith('Bearer ')
  ) {
    return OwHeaders.authorization.substring('Bearer '.length);
  }
  return undefined;
}

2 replies

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Adobe Employee
dbengeAdobe Employee
Adobe Employee
October 18, 2021

I am not fullu clear on what your requirements are for your use case but yes App Builder/Project Firefly can call the AEM Assets API.  This is of course if the AEM instance is hosted on the public internet and the api end point is not protected by a firewall. I have written actions in the past that used the Assets API and it was pretty straight forward to do.

 

Project Firefly/App Builder Actions are built using standard nodejs and nodejs has the fetch library for making POST/GET/PATCH/DELETE Rest calls.

 

I don't see any code labs or medium articles that publish code out there.  We are working on more AEM use case sample code as we speak.

    shelly-goel
    Adobe Employee
    shelly-goelAdobe EmployeeAccepted solution
    Adobe Employee
    October 19, 2021

    Yes Assets API can be used in App Builder.

    An example action snippet for folder creation below:

    const token = getBearerToken(params);
    apiEndpoint = `${aemEndpoint.value}/api/assets/${params.folderPath}`;
          const raw = JSON.stringify({
            class: 'assetFolder',
            properties: {
              'jcr:title': `${params.folderTitle}`,
            },
          });
          res = await fetch(apiEndpoint, {
            method: 'post',
            headers: {
              Authorization: `Bearer ${token}`,
              'Content-Type': 'application/json',
            },
            body: raw,
          });
     
    token generation code snippet:
    function getBearerToken(params) {
      const { __ow_headers: OwHeaders = {} } = params;

      if (
        OwHeaders &&
        OwHeaders.authorization &&
        OwHeaders.authorization.startsWith('Bearer ')
      ) {
        return OwHeaders.authorization.substring('Bearer '.length);
      }
      return undefined;
    }
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      HuiDeShaoAuthor
      Level 4
      October 19, 2021

      @shelly-goelThanks for your sample!
      One more "**bleep**" question 😂, to be honest, I'm pretty beginner to AEM, so how to find the AEM API endpoint, please?
      Now, I can access my company's Assets tool via url like "https://xxx.experiencecloud.adobe.com/assets.html/content/dam/mac/xxx". I tried to access url like "https://xxx.experiencecloud.adobe.com/api/assets", but it didn't work...

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      HuiDeShaoAuthor
      Level 4
      October 19, 2021

      I think I find some info from https://experienceleague.adobe.com/docs/experience-manager-cloud-service/implementing/developing/generating-access-tokens-for-server-side-apis.html#developer-flow.
      It looks like Company's AEM instance is manged in cloud manager. I don't have right access to login some env like "https://author-xxx-xxx.adobeaemcloud.com". When trying to "Get local development token", I am getting 403 error. Not sure why.
      I will continue to do the deeper investigation.
      Thanks all.

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