Re: How do i get a stored file back from the repository?

[Jukka Zitting]

Hi,

Another code snippet for reading the contents of a file in a repository:

    Session session = ...;
    Node file = session.getRootNode().getNode("path/to/file");
    InputStream content = file.getProperty("jcr:content/jcr:data").getStream();
    try {
        // read the content stream
    } finally {
        content.close();
    }

Note that the above code works for typical nt:file/nt:resource nodes.
For more complex file structures you could use something like this:

    InputStream getFileStream(Node file) throws ... {
        Node resource = getFileResource(file);
        return getResourceStream(resource);
    }

    Node getFileResource(Node file) throws... {
        if (file.isNodeType("nt:file")) {
            return file.getNode("jcr:content");
        } else if (file.isNodeType("nt:linkedFile")) {
            return file.getProperty("jcr:content").getNode();
        } else {
            // custom handling
        }
    }

    InputStream getResourceStream(Node resource) throws {
        if (resource.isNodeType("nt:resource")) {
            return resource.getProperty("jcr:data").getStream();
        } else {
            // custom handling
        }
    }

You can also take a look at the IO handler abstraction used by the
Jackrabbit simple webdav feature.

BR,

Jukka Zitting