Hi,
some time ago I had a look at Brix (wicket-cms) and stumbled over
Jackrabbit and JCR. I had not much time till last weekend and decided
then to fight my way through the Jackrabbit-Docs and wiki.
I think I understood much of it, however versioning as well as the right
usage in production is not as clear as I hoped it would be.
I have an inhouse java app here (wicket based webapp with spring + jpa)
that creates files and want to store them in a JCR so I can change my
persitence based upon my needs. The files are recreated on a daily base
and so I thought that versioning is the way to go. So I created a basic
"saveFile" method:
public static void createVersionableFileNode(Node folderNode, File file,
String fileName, String mimeType, String encoding, Session session)
throws RepositoryException, IOException {
Node fileNode;
Node resNode;
//create the file node
try {
fileNode = folderNode.getNode(fileName);
log.info("FileNode {} existiert bereits; versioning...",
file.getName());
}
catch (PathNotFoundException e) {
fileNode = folderNode.addNode(fileName, JcrConstants.NT_FILE);
log.info("FileNode {} existiert nicht; creation...",
file.getName());
fileNode.addMixin(JcrConstants.MIX_VERSIONABLE);
}
//same for resNode
try {
resNode = fileNode.getNode(JcrConstants.JCR_CONTENT);
log.info("ResNode existiert bereits");
}
catch (PathNotFoundException e) {
resNode = fileNode.addNode(JcrConstants.JCR_CONTENT,
JcrConstants.NT_RESOURCE);
log.info("ResNode wurde erstellt");
}
fileNode.checkout();
//create the mandatory filecontent-child node
resNode.setProperty(JcrConstants.JCR_MIMETYPE, mimeType);
resNode.setProperty(JcrConstants.JCR_ENCODING, encoding);
resNode.setProperty(JcrConstants.JCR_DATA, new
FileInputStream(file));
Calendar lastModified = Calendar.getInstance();
lastModified.setTimeInMillis(file.lastModified());
resNode.setProperty(JcrConstants.JCR_LASTMODIFIED, lastModified);
session.save();
fileNode.checkin();
}
In test all works perfect, but what worries me at the moment is following:
-> Why do I have to do soo much work for just saving a file? Did I miss
an easier approach?
-> In the Jackrabbit-Doc i haven't found a word about versioning and its
behaviours of childs (neither in the JCR spec) - so how will a
parent-Node that is versioned react when
a, a versioned child changes?
b, a non-versioned child changes?
-> I saw that there is also an OCM; When should one use it and when not?
Would my file-scenario make sense to take usage of the OCM?
Best,
Korbinian
