Building a Custom Polling Importer in AEM

Developing a Custom Polling Importer: Ingesting and Processing External ContentMarcel Boucher | AEM Evangelist | @marcelboucher

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AEM Feed Importer – Social Communities

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Auto blogging with RSS and ATOM

Calendar Subscriptions via iCal

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The Use Case

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The Required Pieces

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Data Source Importer Scheme Implementation

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The Data Source

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Jira QueryResult is a 13MB XML document

o Useless elements

o Calculations needed to be applied in parallel

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The Importer Scheme

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Add a custom Scheme1) Make a Copy of: /libs/cq/ui/widgets/source/widgets/wcm/FeedImporter.js2) To: /apps/cq/ui/widgets/source/widgets/wcm/FeedImporter.js3) Add your scheme:

{ "text":"Jira Feed", "value":"jira”}

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The Implementation

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OSGi Bundle1) Add service descriptors

@Service(value=Importer.class)@Component(immediate = true, metatype = true)@Properties({

@Property(name = "service.name", value = "Jira RSS Polling Importer"), @Property(name = "service.description", value = "JIRA Polling Data Importer"), @Property(name = "importer.scheme", value="jira") , @Property(name = "jira.username", description = "The JIRA service account to be used."), @Property(name = "jira.password", description = "The JIRA servuce account password to be used."), @Property(name = "xslt.path", description = "The JCR path to the XSLT to be applied to the Jira feed.")

})

2) Implement the importData method

public void importData(final String scheme, final String dataSource, final Resource resource) throws ImportException {}

DEMO

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