Hi @textlang,
It's best NOT to allow access to the /apps folder, especially to the everyone group. This will open yourself up to security vulnerabilities.
Instead, to get a JSON representation of the contents for the given folder, you should create a Sling Servlet. You must create a system user, set ACL permissions, and configure the Apache sling Service User Mapper Service Amendment (tutorial); or a more streamlined and automated way, use the ACS Commons Ensure Authorizable to set these things up.
https://localhost:4503/home.appsfolder.json; you can use this strategy to sugar coat or to change the formatting of the URL when delivering the content.
Example:
@Component(service = Servlet.class)
@SlingServletResourceTypes(
resourceTypes = "sling/servlet/default",
methods = METHOD_GET,
extensions = "json",
selectors = "appsfolder")
public class AppsFolderServlet extends SlingSafeMethodsServlet {
@Override
protected void doGet(SlingHttpServletRequest req, SlingHttpServletResponse res) throws IOException {
res.setContentType(APPLICATION_JSON_UTF8);
res.setStatus(SlingHttpServletResponse.SC_OK);
List<Folder> folders = getFolders(req);
String json = new ObjectMapper().writeValueAsString(pageItems);
res.getWriter().write(json);
}
private List<Folder> getFolders() {
...
return folder;
}
}
Caveats when binding servlets by path:
Binding servlets by paths has several disadvantages when compared to binding by resource types, namely:
- path-bound servlets cannot be access-controlled using the default JCR repository ACLs
- path-bound servlets can only be registered to a path and not a resource type (i.e. no suffix handling)
- if a path-bound servlet is not active, e.g. if the bundle is missing or not started, a POST might result in unexpected results. usually creating a node at /bin/xyz which subsequently overlays the servlets path binding
- the mapping is not transparent to a developer looking just at the repository
Documentation: https://sling.apache.org/documentation/the-sling-engine/servlets.html#caveats-when-binding-servlets-by-path
I hope this works.