Replication in AEM(Adobe Experience Manager)

Replication is a process of activating/publishing a page and it's content from author to publish environment. AEM provide replication API to build a custom step that replicates content from the Author instance to the Publisher instance.

Replication using Replicator API
Initially, We need to create a Replicator instance by using @Reference annotation.

@Reference
private Replicator replicator;

Next, We need to create a session instance and then pass this object to replicate API. Here I have shared a sample code snippet for creating a session instance.

ResourceResolver resolver = request.getResourceResolver();
        session = resolver.adaptTo(Session.class);

Finally, we need to pass the session instance and path to the replication API.
Here I have shared an example that will activate/deactivate web page based on a flag.

  private void managePageActivation(Session session, String path,boolean isReplicate) 
     {

    try {
            if (isReplicate) {
                replicator.replicate(session, ReplicationActionType.ACTIVATE, path);
                log.info("Page activated: ", path);
            } else {
                replicator.replicate(session, ReplicationActionType.DEACTIVATE, path);
                log.info("Page De-activated: ", path);
            }

    } catch (ReplicationException e) {
            log.info("Replication failed "+e.getMessage(), path);
            e.printStackTrace();
    }
}

In the above function will do the following things,

The function will accept session instance, web page link and status for identifying which operation to be performed(Activation or Deactivation). The path is look like this /content/your-project/xxxx/en/user

Then we will call the replicate(Session session, ReplicationActionType type, String path) to replicate the content to the publish instance.

In my next post, I will explain how to activate/deactivate the content(asset and web page) by reading the path from an excel file.

I would like to hear your thoughts and suggestions from you to make it better.

Comments

[ABASK05]

Thanks for the post. i wanna replicate folder and its sub pages. i am sending the folder path in replicate method, but its not activating the sub pages, how can i achieve that? could u pls help