Hi,
I am developing a blog application on Jackrabbit and my node
structure is as follows.
/blogRoot [nt:folder]
/blogRoot/<username> [blog:user]
/blogRoot/<username>/<yyyy> [nt:folder]
/blogRoot/<username>/<yyyy>/<mm> [nt:folder]
/blogRoot/<username>/<yyyy>/<mm>/blogEntry [blog:blogEntry]
/blogRoot/<username>/<yyyy>/<mm>/blogEntry/comment [blog:Comment]
At the moment, a blog entry can have an image attachment and it is
stored as a [nt:file] under the [blog:blogEntry] node. blog:blogEntry node
type is defined as follows
[blog:blogEntry] > nt:folder, mix:referenceable
- blog:title (string) mandatory primary
- blog:content (string) mandatory
- blog:rate (long)
- blog:created (date)
- blog:published (date)
- blog:updated (date)
When I used relational databases, my approach was to save the file
name of the image in a table and store the physical file in the File System.
For example I generate a file name when a file is uploaded and store it's
name in the database in the relavant blog entry table. So whenever I want
to generate the image in a web page in my web application, I can generate
using
<img src="/images/uploaded/"+imageFileName/>
if images are stored in the file system under /images/uploaded directory.
Is an approach like this possible with Jackrabbit if I store images under
blopgEntry node as described above. What are the other possibilities I have
?
This is the code I used to store the images,
// creates a blog entry under the current month
blogEntryNode = monthNode.addNode(title, "blog:blogEntry");
blogEntryNode.setProperty("blog:title", title);
blogEntryNode.setProperty("blog:content", content);
Value date = ValueFactoryImpl.getInstance().createValue(Calendar.getInstance
());
blogEntryNode.setProperty("blog:created",date );
// attach the image to the blog entry
Node imageNode = blogEntryNode.addNode(image.getName(),"nt:file");
Node contentNode = imageNode.addNode("jcr:content","nt:resource");
contentNode.setProperty("jcr:data",image.getInputStream());
contentNode.setProperty("jcr:mimeType",image.getContentType());
contentNode.setProperty("jcr:lastModified",date);
You expertise advice/comments are highly appreciated.Thank you very much in
advance.
Regards,
Nandana
