slingSuperResourcetype doubt in the below article

[askdctm]

Hi All,

One of the article mentions this, but I am not getting what exactly it means. Any thoughts on this will be helpful.

slingSuperResourcetype: It is used to inherit / extend components from foundation or other components. There is a good example to understand it completely. Consider components a , b, c, x, y with the below mentioned properties for each of them :

• /
  • a
  • b
    • sling:resourceSuperType = a
  • c
    • sling:resourceSuperType = b
  • x
    • sling:resourceType = c
  • y
    • sling:resourceType = c
    • sling:resourceSuperType = a

The type hierarchy of

• /x is [ c, b, a, <default>] while for
• /y the hierarchy is [ c, a, <default>]

because /y has the sling:resourceSuperType property whereas /x does not and therefore its supertype is taken from its resource type.

[smacdonald2008 · Accepted solution]

See these documents - they explains better:

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

http://www.mail-archive.com/sling-dev@incubator.apache.org/msg02365.html

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22708055/how-does-apache-sling-script-resolving-rules-work