How to replicate jcr content that is not part of a page.

[tomnz1]

Hi There.

I've written a component that stores data in the following location.  /content/applicationName/jcr:content/data/forms/ .  When my component saves information here I want to automatically push this out to the publish instance.  I can do this manually by clicking the replicate button against the node. 

Could anyone please let me know how to do this automatically?

Thanks in advance,

Tom

[smacdonald2008]

One way to perform this use case is to use the JCR API to do it programmatically. You can write an event handler that responds to that JCR path. When a new node is added on Author, call a service that opens up a session to the Pub instance and then add a new node there with the data. 

[tomnz1]

Hi,

Thanks for your answer.  I'll give this a go.

Cheers,

Tom

[smacdonald2008 · Accepted solution]

Another option that you can do that is from an event handler - invoke a custom Java Servlet on Publish. Send the data (to store at /content/applicationName/jcr:content/data/forms/ ) using the Servlet. Then use the JCR API on the Servlet to persist the data. Use Java APIs located in the  org.apache.http.client.methods.* package to invoke the Servlet. 

Also - look at this:

http://www.slideshare.net/teofili/data-replication-in-sling

talks about data replication using sling.