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How to deal with RepoInit failures in Cloud Service by Jörg Hoh

Abstract

Some years, even before AEM as a Cloud Services, the RepoInit language has been implemented as part of Sling (and AEM) to create repository structures directly on the startup of the JCR Repository. With it your application can rely that some well-defined structures are always available.

In this blog post I want to walk you through a way how you can test repoinit statements locally and avoid pipeline failures because of it.

Repoinit statements are deployed as part of OSGI configurations; and that means that during the development phase you can work in an almost interactive way with it. Also exceptions are not a problem; you can fix the statement and retry.

The situation is much different when you already have repoinit statements deployed and you startup your AEM (to be exact: the Sling Repository service) again. Because in this case all repoinit statements are executed as part of the startup of the repository. And any exception in the execution of repoinits will stop the startup of the repository service and render your AEM unusable. In the case of CloudManager and AEM as a Cloud Service this will break your deployment.

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