Sling resourceType , sling:resourceSuperType.

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October 16, 2015
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Hi All,

What exactly is the difference between the two.

Any detailed explanation/reference would be helpful.

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Best answer by smacdonald2008

From the AEM docs (http://wem.help.adobe.com/enterprise/en_US/10-0/wem/developing/the_basics.html)

In addition to the resource types (primarily defined by the sling:resourceType property) there is also the resource super type. This is generally indicated by the sling:resourceSuperType property. These super types are also considered when trying to find a script. The advantage of resource super types is that they may form a hierarchy of resources where the default resource type sling/servlet/default (used by the default servlets) is effectively the root.

Also - see the SLing docs. This is a good topic to start with:

https://sling.apache.org/documentation/the-sling-engine/url-to-script-resolution.html

Runal_Trivedi

Level 6

You can see an example of sling:resourceType and sling:resourceSuperType in geometrixx too.

Simply open geometrixx contentpage component at - /apps/geometrixx/components/contentpage
contentpage component node declares sling:resourceSuperType as geometrixx/components/page and the script that it contains is content.jsp
- What happens here is all the scripts are referred from geometrixx/components/page except content.jsp
- content.jsp is referred from /apps/geometrixx/components/contentpage

Thats how sling:resourceType ans sling:resourceSuperType relate to each other.

- Runal

smacdonald2008Accepted solution

Level 10

From the AEM docs (http://wem.help.adobe.com/enterprise/en_US/10-0/wem/developing/the_basics.html)

In addition to the resource types (primarily defined by the sling:resourceType property) there is also the resource super type. This is generally indicated by the sling:resourceSuperType property. These super types are also considered when trying to find a script. The advantage of resource super types is that they may form a hierarchy of resources where the default resource type sling/servlet/default (used by the default servlets) is effectively the root.

Also - see the SLing docs. This is a good topic to start with:

https://sling.apache.org/documentation/the-sling-engine/url-to-script-resolution.html