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Carsten Ziegeler commented on SLING-11504:
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The contract for a resource is that getResourceType always returns the resource
type. We have a weaker contract which we added later on, but maybe never
formalized: the value map of a resource should also have the property
sling:resourceType set to the resource type. This is basically to make
outputting resources easier. At least at one point all resource implementations
also followed this contract.
Regardless, any client interested in getting the resource type must use
getResourceType.
Again, it seems you are facing two problems:
1. Your bundled resources do not declare a resource type but don't fallback on
a jcr primary type and therefore fallback on the defaults declared in the
implementation. That is nothing we can fix in the bundle resource
2. Due to the above you run actually into a problem when *merging* resources.
I understand that adding a sling:resourceType property to every child resource
is not nice, but it still would be the right solution. We could also extend the
bundled resource for this use case to look at a jcr:primaryType property as a
fallback
> BundleResource fallback sling:resourceType should be consistent with
> JcrNodeResource
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>
> Key: SLING-11504
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SLING-11504
> Project: Sling
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Affects Versions: Bundle Resource 2.3.4
> Reporter: Michal Cukierman
> Priority: Minor
> Attachments: Screenshot 2022-07-29 at 17.35.04.png,
> image-2022-07-29-16-47-41-320.png
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>
> *Background:*
> We work on Sling based CMS -
> [https://www.websight.io|https://www.websight.io/] . One of our current goals
> is to move /apps and /libs folders into bundle resources and get rid of JCR
> based sling scripting and configurations (JCR Installer). This is an
> alternative approach to CompositeNodeStore usage in order to support
> containerized environments, blue-green deployments, and separation of code,
> configuration, and data.
> To achieve this, we move components (and dialogs) definitions from JCR into
> bundles and make them work with the same APIs (like Sling Resource Merger).
>
> *The problem:*
> JcrNodeResource and BundleResource use different mechanisms for calculating
> fallback sling:resourceType
> * In JCR, Resource.getResourceType method is used to calculate resourceType
> if no explicit property is found in the repository. See
> [https://github.com/apache/sling-org-apache-sling-jcr-resource/blob/72c105d67adc58ef1f4d43de78815fdcebb290b5/src/main/java/org/apache/sling/jcr/resource/internal/helper/jcr/JcrItemResource.java#L120]]
> * In Bundles, sling:resourceType is always set in the constructor and later
> overwritten by the JSON properties, if available. See:
> |[https://github.com/apache/sling-org-apache-sling-bundleresource-impl/blob/master/src/main/java/org/apache/sling/bundleresource/impl/BundleResource.java#L91]
> It results in a different contract, in particular, it’s impossible to declare
> BundleResource with no sling:resorurceType property. The result can be
> observed in the following Groovy Script execution, where both nodes have no
> sling:resourceTypes declared:
> !image-2022-07-29-16-47-41-320.png|width=751,height=545!
> Incompatible BundleResource and JCRNodeResource contracts requires
> workarounds in multiple APIs (our internal APIs / SlingResource Merger API)
> or to do workarounds at the data level.
>
> *Proposed solution:*
> I can reimplement BundleResource, so that sling:resourceType is calculated in
> the getter. This will result in a valid getResourceType() method contract
> with the possibility of having null sling:resourceType resource property.
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