Have a look at Sling Models. On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 12:32 AM, Henry Saginor <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Michael, > > Since Sling itself is a framework for building web applications with it’s > own persistence and services layer it’s a bit unusual to get questions on > integration with Spring here (I think). But I don’t know enough about your > application and its use cases to question why you are doing this. ButI > think you you can use JCR API to persist your DTOs. Look up JCR API and > Apache Jackrabbit and OAK projects. > > Technically you could do away with Sling entirelly and use Apache > Jackrabbit or OAK directly if all you are using Sling for is as > document/content store. > But again don’t know enough about your application. And I don’t really > want to discourage you from using Sling since I am a big fan. :) > > Henry > > > On Jul 22, 2015, at 1:36 PM, Haefele, Michael <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > We have a Sling application that we're using basically as a > database/file manager for portions of a java Spring application. > > > > In java we have a bunch of DTOs that we import by converting to json > using Jackson and persisting to Sling using the import option on the Sling > post servlet. > > We then read them using .tidy.infinity.json and convert back to DTOs > using Jackson again. > > This is working really well. > > > > But we've reached point where we need to modify some of the data in > Sling and it seems like I've hit a bit of a conceptual wall. > > I was thinking we'd keep the DTO pattern going. > > Load the DTO, modify some value, push the updated DTO back to Sling. > > > > But it seems the POST servlet doesn't support json when doing a modify > operation. > > I basically took that as a hint that I might be barking up the wrong > tree here. > > > > We could also do the updates by posting specific properties, but it > seems like that's opening the door to writing a lot of custom update code. > > > > > > Does anyone have any suggestions for best practices for this sort of > thing? > > Am I trying too hard to apply RDBMS/hibernate style patterns? > > > > > > Thanks for taking to the time to read a somewhat open ended question. > >
