Replication in AEM(Adobe Experience Manager)

Replication is a process of activating/publishing a page and it's content from author to publish environment. AEM provide replication API to build a custom step that replicates content from the Author instance to the Publisher instance.

Replication using Replicator API
Initially, We need to create a Replicator instance by using @Reference annotation.

@Reference
private Replicator replicator;

Next, We need to create a session instance and then pass this object to replicate API. Here I have shared a sample code snippet for creating a session instance.

ResourceResolver resolver = request.getResourceResolver();
        session = resolver.adaptTo(Session.class);

Finally, we need to pass the session instance and path to the replication API.
Here I have shared an example that will activate/deactivate web page based on a flag.

  private void managePageActivation(Session session, String path,boolean isReplicate) 
     {

    try {
            if (isReplicate) {
                replicator.replicate(session, ReplicationActionType.ACTIVATE, path);
                log.info("Page activated: ", path);
            } else {
                replicator.replicate(session, ReplicationActionType.DEACTIVATE, path);
                log.info("Page De-activated: ", path);
            }

    } catch (ReplicationException e) {
            log.info("Replication failed "+e.getMessage(), path);
            e.printStackTrace();
    }
}

In the above function will do the following things,

In my next post, I will explain how to activate/deactivate the content(asset and web page) by reading the path from an excel file.

I would like to hear your thoughts and suggestions from you to make it better.