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Anonymous
June 21, 2018

AEM 6.3 Rebuild Client Libraries not working

  • June 21, 2018
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Hi everyone,

I've just activated the Adobe Html Library Manager minify in /system/console/configMgr, so now every ClientLibrary is called .min.css or .min.js.

Here's my problem: the ClientLibraries are not updated until I edit the file, even with only one space, and in this way the ClientLibrary is builded again. Looking into other discussions, everyone suggests using /libs/granite/ui/content/dumplibs.rebuild.html, but using this tool, either invalidating and rebuilding all ClientLibraries, there are no changes in them.
Unfortunately, I have a lot of ClientLibraries, so I can not take one for one and modify them to be re-created.


Do you have any solution? Thanks in advance and have a nice day!

Daniel

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    arunpatidar
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    arunpatidarCommunity Advisor
    Community Advisor
    June 21, 2018

    Hi,

    you can delete all your client libs from /var/clientlibs

    then next time it will be rebuild again automatically.

    Thanks

    Arun

    Arun Patidar
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    Anonymous
    June 21, 2018

    Thanks Arun,

    but as already mentioned, I have already done this operation through the tool "/libs/granite/ui/content/dumplibs.rebuild.html?validate=true" which does nothing but clean the location /var/clientlibs. It doesn't work.

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    Anonymous
    June 21, 2018

    I tried also to change the CSS Minify processor (from "yui" to "yux" and then again correctly to "yui"), but nothing. I tried also to restart the machine, but nothing. Everything I try, the only case in which the ClientLibrary updates itself is when I modify a file in it.

    arunpatidar
    Community Advisor
    arunpatidarCommunity Advisor
    Community Advisor
    June 21, 2018

    Hi,

    I tried deleting my clientlibs(myApp) from /var/clientlibs/etc/myApp folder in AEM 6.3 and reloaded the page which referred clientLibs. Once page is loaded /var/clientlibs/etc/myApp folder is created again with minified clientlibs.

    Which AEM version are you using?

    Arun Patidar
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    Anonymous
    June 22, 2018

    The problem is that in my machine the /var/clientlibs folder is empty, but the css files don't update themselves.

    I've AEM 6.3.2.1

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      Anonymous
      June 22, 2018

      Hi Arun, and everyone,

      maybe I found a solution. When I was about to lose every hope, I tried to review the configuration of "Adobe Granite HTML Library Manager" on /system/console/configMgr looking for something that could be useful to our cause.

      So I saw the option "Long term client side cache key" (Description: "The path pattern list for long-caching in the format" regexp; key ". If key equals to 'auto' it is automatically generated when this service restarts use 'none' to disable it.) and I tried to set "(. *); auto". And incredibly, the ClientLibrary has updated!!!!

      But it is absurd that the "rebuild" and "invalidate" operations of the tool offered by AEM just for this cause, do not work, and no other operation works, except this configuration.

      Bye bye (and thank you again Arun ) and have a good day and weekend!

      Daniel

      arunpatidar
      Community Advisor
      arunpatidarCommunity Advisor
      Community Advisor
      June 22, 2018

      cool

      Thanks and I believe you will be having a nice weekend too after all you've found a solution

      Cheer

      Arun

      Arun Patidar
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      Anonymous
      June 22, 2018

      arunp99088702​

      As unsaid Arun: ((((

      That field "Long term client side cache key" is related to the next field "Long term cache key format", which by default is "lc-% s-lc". And these two settings combined change the name of the file in "{filename}.lc- {timestamp}-lc.min.css" (e.g.: main.lc-9484393.min.css). This solution was not what I need and it creates also obvious caching problems, because the css inclusion is in the head, so for every css/js update in production, I should clear the entire cache of my site on dispatcher.

      So the problem has remained unresolved, these damn ClientLibraries are not invalidated.

      D.

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      pradeepn6086740
      Level 2
      July 18, 2018

      Hey did you find any solution for this.

      Thanks,

      Pradeep

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      Adobe Employee
      aemmarc2Adobe Employee
      Adobe Employee
      December 18, 2018

      Everyone is looking at this the wrong way.

      In AEM 6.3 and 6.4 the client libraries are persisted on the file system. They no longer live under /var

      Under one of the bundles (bundle248 on my local) there is an outputcache directory. Within this directory is where the compiled client libraries live.

      For example on an AEM 6.3.3.0 instance:

      \AEM 6.3\6.3.3.0\crx-quickstart\launchpad\felix\bundle248\data\outputcache

      \apps

      \etc

      \libs

      This is all documented here : How to force a recompilation of all Sling scripts jsps, java, and sightly in AEM 6.4

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        steven-z
        May 8, 2019

        Thanks for this answer you helped me a lot.

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