Ah OK, thanks Woonsan. That's how I will handle it then. I was enticed by the documentation to believe that it might be easier. https://docs.adobe.com/docs/en/spec/jsr170/javadocs/jcr-2.0/javax/jcr/Workspace.html#copy(java.lang.String,%20java.lang.String) "When a node N is copied to a location where a node N' already exists, the repository may either immediately throw an ItemExistsException or attempt to update the node N' by selectively replacing part of its subgraph with a copy of the relevant part of the subgraph of N. If the node types of N and N' are compatible, the implementation supports update-on-copy for these node types and no other errors occur, then the copy will succeed. Otherwise an ItemExistsException is thrown."
In practice it is probably better to have control over what is being copied, which I guess is what the implementers decided. Harold Putman ________________________________ From: Woonsan Ko <woon...@apache.org> Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 9:25 AM To: users@jackrabbit.apache.org Subject: Re: Copy over an existing node On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 4:54 AM Harold Putman <harold.put...@lexmark.com> wrote: > > I want to copy a source node over a destination node that already exists. > If I just do > workspace.copy(sourcePath, targetPath); > I get an ItemExistsException. > I was hoping to create a new version by > VersionManager vm = workspace.getVersionManager(); > vm.checkout(targetPath); > workspace.copy(sourcePath, targetPath); > vm.checkin(targetPath); > but still I get a ItemExistsException. > > What is the right way to do this? Iterating properties and child nodes of the source node and copy each of those to the target node? Copying properties is quite straightforward. 'Copying child nodes' is probably your requirement specific. Sometimes, I removed child nodes first and add new ones. Or sometimes I resolve the mapping child nodes somehow and copy the properties if found, etc. Regards, Woonsan > > > Harold Putman
