WatchedFolderUtils

AEM Watched Folder Utilities

AEM Watched Folder Poster

This is an AEM Watched Folder Processor (OSGi bundle) that will take files dropped into the watched folder and POST them to a REST service. This project also contains a mock Spring Boot client that demonstrates how the receiving end of this connection can be implemented.

Installing the bundle

To install the Watched Folder Poster, download the latest watched-folder-poster-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar from the this project's GitHub Package repository and then copy it into the install directory of the AEM instance. This should cause AEM to install the bundle. It should be present and active in the AEM Bundles console.

After the bundle is installed successfully, it should be available for use when configuring a watched folder.

Configuring the watched folder

1. Follow instructions found in Adobe “Create or Configure a watched folder” documentation.

2. Configure the Watched Folder with the following things:

   1. Path set to the location where the watched folder resides (e.g. C:\WatchedFolder)

   2. Process Files Using should be set to Service.

   3. Service Name should have the com._4point.aem.watchedfolder.core.WatchedFolderRestPoster entry selected.

   4. Output File Pattern can be set to whatever you want the output filenames to be (e.g Result_%F_%Y%M%D_%h%m%s_%R.txt).

      

3. Configure endpoint to point to a REST Service

   1. Select the Advanced tab

   2. Scroll to bottom and click Add button under Custom Properties

   3. Enter endpoint in first field and select string for type and enter URL (e.g. http://machine:port/getDocument) to the REST service. For example, this might be http://localhost:8090/getDocument if the REST server is running locally on port 8090 . See below for reference: