AEM 6.5 - Querying against Synthetic resources

[KimonP]

Hi everyone,

We have the following scenario in place:

• We want to create a MyItems listing page
• Every MyItem consists of a page containing (among others)
  • MyItem Banner component
  • MyItem Config component
• In the listing page, we need to query against and extract facets from
  • MyItem Banner component props
  • MyItem Config component props
    • Some prop values are not stored directly but (when the MyItem page is rendered) are retrieved on-the-fly from an external integration

Questions:

• Is it possible to have a "unified" query to use in the listing page, considering we have different sources of information for each listable element?
• I was thinking of leveraging Synthetic resources (e.g. create MyItemSyntehticResource with all required props and then query against these)
• In previous versions maybe that could also be possible via custom ResourceProvider implementation
• So far I am unsure how to go about it - or if it's at all possible

Any ideas?

Kind regards

[Kiran_Vedantam · Accepted solution]

Hi @KimonP,

For the use-case that you have mentioned, you can do the below steps

• Let the page load - with all the pros in the required components
• Once the load is completed, make an ajax call to the servlet and send the page path
• In the servlet, using page path, fetch the page resource and then the component eventually - with the values already available
• Then use the query to show the results

Note: This might impact the query results if the page load is slow.

Hope this helps.

Thanks,

Kiran Vedantam.

[KimonP]

Hi @Kiran_Vedantam ,

Thanks for your reply, but I think your solution applies to the MyItem details rendering. I am talking about having a listing component where all MyItems are listed and can extract facets, filter against them, etc.

[Kiran_Vedantam]

Hi @KimonP,

yes, you can do it. Please try this.

• Create all my items pages under a root page
• Now in the MyItems listing page, on page load, write a servlet to trigger the resource type
• Pass the root page path to the servlet in the request parameters
• In the servlet, iterate over the pages and send the JSON response to the Front end with banner component and config component details
• Now in FE you can play around with the received JSON values for search and other stuff

Hope this helps.

Thanks,

Kiran Vedantam

[KimonP]

Thanks for your reply. This does not solve the facet extraction issue though, right?