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TheBigRed
TheBigRed
February 4, 2016
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Using regex with event listener path

  • February 4, 2016
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Can you use regex for the path which custom event listener listens to?

I'm trying to listen to a folder named 'video' which is a subfolder of a folder which has other siblings (siblings have subfolder called 'video' as well).

I don't want my onEvent function to occur on other folders but just that video folder.

Essentially like this: /content/dam/parentfolder/subfolder/video

I want to do this : /content/dam/parentfolder/.*/video

Is this possible?

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Best answer by smacdonald2008

Looking at the Javadoc for the ObservationManager manager: 

Parameters:
listener - an EventListener object.
eventTypes - A combination of one or more event type constants encoded as a bitmask.
absPath - an absolute path.
isDeep - a boolean.
uuid - array of UUIDs.
nodeTypeName - array of node type names.
noLocal - a boolean.

 

Looks like you need to specify an absolute path. 

Hope this helps! 

 

 

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smacdonald2008
smacdonald2008Accepted solution
February 4, 2016

Looking at the Javadoc for the ObservationManager manager: 

Parameters:
listener - an EventListener object.
eventTypes - A combination of one or more event type constants encoded as a bitmask.
absPath - an absolute path.
isDeep - a boolean.
uuid - array of UUIDs.
nodeTypeName - array of node type names.
noLocal - a boolean.

 

Looks like you need to specify an absolute path. 

Hope this helps! 

 

 
TheBigRed
TheBigRedAuthor
February 4, 2016

thanks!

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vishalm91130305
July 6, 2018

smacdonald2008​, As per the API of observation manager, we can't use regular expression as path while adding the event using Event Listener.

Is there any other way of adding regular expression path except event handler(we can use regular expression path).

Use case : I want to trigger event for all locale and countries  /content/google/en/us/home ->  /content/google/*/*/home

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