How can I filter assets to get only folders from adobe aem assets api

[sandyT52]

Hi Folks,

I am trying filter the content of adobe aem assets api to get only folders and skip files to check whether parent folder have any sub folder.

I am refereeing  below url for adobe aem documentation regarding asset api :
https://experienceleague.adobe.com/docs/experience-manager-64/assets/extending/mac-api-assets.html?l...

Can anyone help me to know how to filter the content of asset api.

Thanks,

Sandeep

[Nikhil_Verma]

I have the below folder structure in my AEM Assets containing a parent folder ('my-assets') which again contains 3 assets and 1 folder:

The Assets API on 'my-assets' folder returns below:

It is clear I see that for assets the 'properties' element has 'metadata' and dc:format' elements.

Whereas, for folders these elements don't exist.

Which makes sense, as dc:format and metadata nodes in CRX exists for assets and not folders.

So you can know whether it is a folder or an asset.

[sandyT52]

Thanks Nikhil for reply,

In my case metadata does not come, but i have done this using class field and it is working but to check this folders have sub-folders i am sending separate api calls for each folders and checking if it contains any folder or not which is time consuming, i need a way to send filter with request to check if it have folder or not
For file:

For folder :

[Nikhil_Verma · Accepted solution]

I think for what you're after, you need query builder instead of Assets API.

Try this: http://localhost:4502/bin/querybuilder.json?path=/content/dam&1_property=jcr:primaryType&1_property....

You should get a JSON output with a list of all folders inside DAM:

Folder structure in DAM: