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Saravanan_Dharmaraj
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Saravanan_DharmarajCommunity Advisor
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September 20, 2022

please check this out. 

https://experienceleaguecommunities.adobe.com/t5/adobe-experience-manager/aem-url-shortening-functionality/m-p/305586 

https://blog.3sharecorp.com/shortening-urls-in-aem 

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    suiryaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAuthor
    September 20, 2022

    hi,

    thanks for the links. But I want to read the shortened url (cut url) available in the browser address bar in my sling servlet or sling models 

      joerghoh
      Adobe Employee
      joerghohAdobe Employee
      Adobe Employee
      September 20, 2022

      In your example code you are trying to read the "referer" header, which is obviously not what you want. Do you want to read the "long" (probably you mean "unshortened") path of the requested resource or the "long" path of the referer?

       

      In any way, the links @saravanan_dharmaraj  provided are good ones, check them to understand the mapping.

      If you want to reverse the shortening in Java code, you can use these API:

      resourceresolver.map (longpath)

      resourceresolver.resolver (request, shortpath) 

       

      Both return resources, for which you can use "resource.getPath()" to get their actual repository path. See https://sling.apache.org/apidocs/sling11/org/apache/sling/api/resource/ResourceResolver.html

       

       

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        suiryaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAuthor
        September 20, 2022

        hi,

        thanks for the reply. I want to read the shortened url which is visible to user in browser address bar (without /content/en ) in my sling servlet.

        request.getRequestURL() and getRequestURI,request.getHeader('referer') are returning only long urls /content/en which I dont want. I want the one which is visible to user in my sling servlet or sling model

          joerghoh
          Adobe Employee
          joerghohAdobe Employee
          Adobe Employee
          September 24, 2022

          In that case you need the

          resouceResolver.map()

          API call.

          arunpatidar
          Community Advisor
          arunpatidarCommunity Advisor
          Community Advisor
          September 21, 2022

          Hi,

          Could you please explain the use case, I believe in servlet you can shorten the url by chopping off contextpath substring.

          Arun Patidar
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            suiryaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAuthor
            September 27, 2022

            hi,
            So my use case is something like, I have a page with path (say longURL) "http://localhost:4502/content/en/test/temp/apple.html", but the url which is visible to user is (shortURL) "www.apple.com/home". I want to read this shortURL in my servlet.If I use request.getPath or getReferer or getRequestURL are returning longurl, but I need shortURL 

            arunpatidar
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            arunpatidarCommunity Advisor
            Community Advisor
            September 27, 2022

            Where are the mappings from long to short? in AEM? How you are transforming links.

            /content/en/test/temp/apple.html --> www.apple.com/home

             

            you can use the same mapping here to get short url from long url.

            Arun Patidar
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