AEM Groovy Extension

CITYTECH, Inc.

Overview

OSGi bundle containing Groovy builders and metaclasses for AEM (Adobe CQ). The bundle exposes an API to implement extension "provider" services to register additional Groovy metaclasses in the container.

new NodeBuilder(session).content {
    satirists("sling:Folder") {
        bierce(firstName: "Ambrose", lastName: "Bierce", birthDate: Calendar.instance.updated(year: 1842, month: 5, date: 24))
        mencken(firstName: "H.L.", lastName: "Mencken", birthDate: Calendar.instance.updated(year: 1880, month: 8, date: 12))
        other("sling:Folder", "jcr:title": "Other")
    }
}

Requirements

• AEM 6.1 running on localhost:4502 (versions 1.x and above)
• Versions 0.8.x - 0.9.x are compatible with AEM 6.0.
• Versions 0.7.x and below are compatible with CQ 5.6
• Maven 3.x

Usage and Installation

1. Add dependency to your project's Maven pom.xml.

    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.citytechinc.aem.groovy.extension</groupId>
        <artifactId>aem-groovy-extension-bundle</artifactId>
        <version>1.0.0</version>
        <scope>provided</scope>
    </dependency>
   

2. Install the AEM Groovy Extension package.

    mvn install -P local
   

   or

    mvn install -P local,replicate
   

   The optional replicate profile activates the deployed package to the local publish instance.

   To install to a non-localhost AEM environment, connection parameters can be passed as Maven properties on the command line (see the parent POM file for additional environment property names).

    mvn install -P local -Daem.host=hostname -Daem.port.author=7402
   

Context Path Support

If you are running AEM with a context path, set the Maven property aem.context.path during installation.

mvn install -P local -Daem.context.path=/context

Registering Additional Metaclasses

Services implementing the com.citytechinc.aem.groovy.extension.api.MetaClassExtensionProvider will be automatically discovered and bound by the OSGi container. These services can be implemented in any deployed bundle. The AEM Groovy Extension bundle will handle the registration and removal of supplied metaclasses as these services are activated/deactivated in the container. See the DefaultMetaClassExtensionProvider service for the proper closure syntax for registering metaclasses.

Versioning

Follows Semantic Versioning guidelines.