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How to where to store JSON files to access JSON as it is in UI(Headless arch)

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June 6, 2018
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Hi Team,

We have a situation where we need to store the .JSON files as it is in same path and UI application is going to access this file. This is headless architecture.

What is the best place to keep this and that place should be accessible to team members and they can be able to upload it to the AEM like assets.

Any suggestions or ideas on this?

Thanks

Uma

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Best answer by kautuk_sahni

Write a custom AEM service and then use JCR API to update the nodes.

Parse the values from JSON and then use API to update the nodes in the JCR -- for example:

//Store content from the client JSP in the JCR

Node custNode = customerRoot.addNode("customer"+firstName+lastName+custId,"nt:unstructured");

//make sure name of node is unique

custNode.setProperty("id", custId);

custNode.setProperty("firstName", firstName);

custNode.setProperty("lastName", lastName);

See: Adobe Experience Manager Help | Persisting Adobe Experience Manager data in the Java Content Repository and Adobe Experience Manager Help | Submitting Adobe Experience Manager form data to Java Sling Servlets

If the Json data is huge then There are many libraries for serializing/deserializing JSON in java, the most notable is Google’s Gson: https://github.com/google/gson

kautuk_sahni

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Write a custom AEM service and then use JCR API to update the nodes.

Parse the values from JSON and then use API to update the nodes in the JCR -- for example:

//Store content from the client JSP in the JCR

Node custNode = customerRoot.addNode("customer"+firstName+lastName+custId,"nt:unstructured");

//make sure name of node is unique

custNode.setProperty("id", custId);

custNode.setProperty("firstName", firstName);

custNode.setProperty("lastName", lastName);

See: Adobe Experience Manager Help | Persisting Adobe Experience Manager data in the Java Content Repository and Adobe Experience Manager Help | Submitting Adobe Experience Manager form data to Java Sling Servlets

If the Json data is huge then There are many libraries for serializing/deserializing JSON in java, the most notable is Google’s Gson: https://github.com/google/gson

Kautuk Sahni

joerghoh

Adobe Employee

Why don't you upload the JSON file as asset (just as you would upload images) and deliver it as is?

Jörg

Umamaheswari_Yakkala

Author

Community Advisor

Hi Jorg,

we are looking for that kind of option, where the team can go ahead and upload the JSON file and should be able to accessible in UI, I have uploaded and not able to read JSON from the publishers .. returning page not found. This approach is working for txt and js but not JSON.

Is there any way that i can upload JSON into dam and can be able to read content of the file by accessing the URL ?

Thanks

Uma

joerghoh

Adobe Employee

Hi,

I have a file called tree.json on my local drive
I open my AEM 6.4 instance and browse into assets, /content/dam/we-retail
I drag and drop the tree.json into the browser window, triggering the upload it
tree.json is now being displayed as asset
I hit localhost:4502/content/dam/we-retail/tree.json
It is downloading the JSON file and it can be displayed correctly.

I did not have any problems with that approach.

Jörg

bhansa

Level 2

I also faced the same scenario where the file is getting downloaded, which means it is accessible. Is there any way that we can open the file in browser instead of downloading.

I am not trying to do it through DAM, instead I am trying to do that via codebase.