Data-sly-resource not working for composite components

[troubleshooter3]

UPDATE: I have a Composite component A, which have a child B (also a composite component) . B has a cq:template  which initializes children of B lets say title, name and image components.  I am trying to call B in A -n numbers of time since its a multifield, therefore I cant intialize B along with its children in A's cq:template.

This doesnt works as expected in sightly, I am not able to get children of B title, name and image in A.

[B_Sravan]

Hi @troubleshooter3 ,

May I have the screen shot of node structure?. Also, where are you including the "data-sly-resource"? is it in that same template html?.

Thank you.

[troubleshooter3]

@B_Sravan  I have a component called as X which is a composite component created using components A and B( is also a composite component created using 3 other components). Now I am trying to create a new component Y that will use component X. All looks good I am able to call X from Y but unable to initialize component B, component A looks good.

[arunpatidar]

Hi,

You need to add the defualt values of children componnet in the container/parent component's cq:template with the content node structure.

e.g. container/parent component's cq:template

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<jcr:root xmlns:sling="http://sling.apache.org/jcr/sling/1.0" xmlns:cq="http://www.day.com/jcr/cq/1.0" xmlns:jcr="http://www.jcp.org/jcr/1.0" xmlns:nt="http://www.jcp.org/jcr/nt/1.0"
    jcr:primaryType="nt:unstructured"
    variant="two">
    <child1
            jcr:primaryType="nt:unstructured"
            sling:resourceType="myapp/components/content/custom-column"
            columnLayout="l-grid__column-large-4 l-grid__column-medium-6"/>
     <child2
            jcr:primaryType="nt:unstructured"
            sling:resourceType="myapp/components/content/custom-column"
            columnLayout="l-grid__column-large-4 l-grid__column-medium-6"/>
</jcr:root>

[troubleshooter3]

 @arunpatidar I am not sure if I can do that, because child components are like my slides (multiFieldModels), they can be 100,200 or anything. I cant initialize that much code in parents cq:template. I need a way to programmatically initialize grand children in my component.

[arunpatidar]

hi,

Is it ok to set value property to the child component's field. This will intialize the component with default value but values will not be saved until you hit save/submit to the dialog.

[troubleshooter3]

@arunpatidar To initialize I am looking for grand children nodes under child nodes and not the properties. Setting up all this from cq:template will be a lot since we dont know how many nodes we need