Retrieve version from Adobe DAM asset

[koshyg63253593]

Hi,

I have an image asset in my DAM. I want to retrieve the versions of the asset from the DAM using a querybuilder.json request call?

Is there some parameter or property that I can pass in which will return the versions of the asset?

Thank you

[smacdonald2008 · Accepted solution]

I have been digging into this.

Typically - when searching - you specify a node property on which to search. One popular why to seach for DAM assets is by path.  ie - /content/dam/car

However - with versions, its different. I created some versions of an asset: 

[img]assetsVersion.png[/img]

Now when you look at the JCR structure - there is no single version property. Look here:

[img]assetsVersion2.png[/img]

Its a reference - using a GUID value -  to another part of the AEM JCR.

Therefore - it looks like you cannot simply specify version in a Restful call like:

http://localhost:4502/bin/querybuilder.json?type=nt:file&nodename=*.jar&orderby=@jcr:content/jcr:las...

as described in this topic:

https://docs.adobe.com/docs/en/cq/5-6-1/dam/customizing_and_extendingcq5dam/query_builder.html (there is no version information in this topic)

To seach for DAM assets by version - looks like you will have to build a custom service using the JCR API. You can get the reference value and then search the JCR using that reference. It will take you somewhere like:

[img]assetsVersion3.png[/img]

Now you can get all the information you want about a versioned DAM asset. 

See this topic for more information about searching for DAM assets using out of the box ways: 

https://docs.adobe.com/docs/en/cq/5-6-1/dam/how_to_use_the_damfinder.html

[koshyg63253593]

Thank you for the help!!!