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Gradle AEM Plugin

Local Instance plugin

About

Provides instance related tasks: instanceUp, instanceDown, instanceSetup, instanceBackup, instanceSetup, instanceCreate etc. Allows to create & customize AEM instances on local file system and control them. Also provides support for automated backups and restoring.

Should be applied only at root project / only once within whole build.

To apply plugin use snippet:

plugins {
    id("com.cognifide.aem.instance.local")
}

This plugin implicitly applies Instance Plugin.

Instance file structure

By default, instance file are stored directly in project, under so called main AEM module usually named aem. Ensure having directory aem/.instance ignored in VCS and excluded from indexing by IDE.

Instance file structure

Task instanceSetup

Performs initial setup of local AEM instance(s). Automated version of instanceCreate instanceUp instanceSatisfy packageDeploy.

Task instanceResetup

Combination of instanceDown instanceDestroy instanceSetup. Allows to quickly back to initial state of local AEM instance(s).

To prevent data loss, this unsafe task execution must be confirmed by parameter -Pforce.

Task instanceCreate

Create AEM instance(s) at local file system. Extracts crx-quickstart from downloaded JAR and applies configuration according to instance definitions.

Configuration of AEM instance source (JAR file or backup file)

To create instances from scratch, specify:

localInstance.quickstart.jarUrl=[protocol]://[user]:[password]@[host]/[path]/cq-quickstart.jar
localInstance.quickstart.licenseUrl=[protocol]://[user]:[password]@[host]/[path]/license.properties

To create instances from local backups, firstly create instances from scratch, then run backup task. After creating backup, at any time, instances could be restored to previous state by running resetup task. Nothing need to be configured by default.

To create instances from remote backups see section work with remote instance backups.

By default plugin tries to automatically find most recent backup from all available sources. However to e.g avoid creating instances from the scratch accidentally, source mode can be adjusted by specifying property localInstance.source. Available values:

  • auto - Create instances from most recent backup (remote or local) or fallback to creating from the scratch if there is no backup available. Default mode.
  • scratch - Force creating instances from the scratch.
  • backup_any - Force using any backup available at local or remote source.
  • backup_remote - Force using backup available at remote source (specified as localInstance.backup.downloadUrl or localInstance.backup.uploadUrl).
  • backup_local - Force using local backup (created by task instanceBackup).

When mode is different than scratch, then backup ZIP file selection rule could be adjusted:

aem {
    localInstance {
        backup {
            selector = {  // default implementation below
                val name = prop.string("localInstance.backup.name") ?: ""
                when {
                    name.isNotBlank() -> firstOrNull { it.fileEntry.name == name }
                    else -> firstOrNull()
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

Notice that, default selector assumes that most recent backup will be selected. Ordering by file name including timestamp then local backups precedence when backup is available on both local & remote source. Still, backup selector could select exact backup by name when property localInstance.backup.name is specified.

Pre-installed OSGi bundles and CRX packages

Use dedicated section:

aem {
    localInstance {
        install {
            files {
                download("http://my-company.com/aem/packages/my-package.zip")
            }
        }
    }
}

Files section works in a same way as in instance satisfy task. For more details see AEM File Install Provider documentation.

Customization of extracted instance files (optional)

The plugin allows us to override or provide extra files to local AEM instance installations. This behavior could be customized by localInstance section of plugin DSL:

aem {
    localInstance {
        rootDir.set(file(".instance")) // path under which local instance files are stored
        configDir.set(file("src/aem/localInstance"))
        overrideDir.set(configDir.dir("override")) // path with directories instance specific (common, author, publish) holding files that can override default instance files
        expandProperties.set(mapOf<String, Any>()) // place where additional properties can be defined
        expandFiles.set(listOf( // file patterns which allows using variables inside
            "**/*.properties", 
            "**/*.sh", 
            "**/*.bat", 
            "**/*.xml",
            "**/start",
            "**/stop"
        ))
    }
}

Besides expandProperties, there is one predefined variable instance that can be used to customize scripts and other files (see start script).

Customization of sling.properties files

An example could be providing additional configuration for the sling.properties file when running AEM 6.5 on Java 11. It is needed to override only two properties in the final sling.properties file:

  • org.osgi.framework.system.packages.extra
    • which describe extra packages that will be exported in the system bundle
    • in Java 11 system bundle by default exports fewer API classes than in Java 8
    • sometimes we need to extend this set to make pre-Java 11 bundles work
  • and org.osgi.framework.bootdelegation

To achieve that, add file with your props under src/aem/localInstance directory in your project: src/aem/localInstance/common/crx-quickstart/conf/sling.properties

org.osgi.framework.system.packages.extra=org.apache.sling.launchpad.api;version\=1.2.0 ${org.apache.sling.launcher.system.packages},com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal;version\="{dollar}{felix.detect.java.version}",com.sun.activation.registries;version\="{dollar}{felix.detect.java.version}"
org.osgi.framework.bootdelegation=sun.*,com.sun.*,jdk.internal.reflect,jdk.internal.reflect.*

Now, when creating a new instance with this configuration, only those two properties will get overridden in sling.properties.

Notice that adding the file under src/aem/localInstance/common will apply it both for author and publish instances.

Task instanceBackup

Archives local AEM instance(s) into ZIP file. Provides automated way to perform offline backup. Requires having instance(s) down.

To perform online backup consider to implement custom AEM task which will reflect cURL functionality from section Automating AEM Online Backup.

The most recent file created by this task will be reused automatically while running task instanceCreate.

Backup files are stored at path relative to project that is applying plugin com.cognifide.aem.instance. Most often it will be path: build/aem/instanceBackup/local/xxx.backup.zip. It could be overridden by writing:

aem {
    localInstance {
        backup {
            localDir.set(file("any/other/directory"))
        }
    }
}

Instance backups created by this task could be used later by create task.

It is also possible to upload only previously created local backup. In that case specify mode property by running gradlew instanceBackup -Pinstance.backup.mode=upload_only. Available modes: zip_and_upload (default), zip_only, upload_only.

Work with remote instance backups

Backups can be automatically downloaded and uploaded from remote server.

Minimal requirement to have it working is only to specify localInstance.backup.uploadUrl. By having only this upload property specified, plugin will automatically download most recent backup found in directory determined by upload URL.

It is also possible to specify second property localInstance.backup.downloadUrl which will cause that concrete backup will be always in use. By having only this download property specified, plugin will not automatically upload any backups.

Backup files created, by default, have suffix .backup.zip. This matters in case of resolving backups from remote sources to distinguish AEM backups from other files. Most often it is not needed to update it. These few lines in gradle.properties files are required to have automatic two-way backups working:

localInstance.backup.uploadUrl=sftp://example.com/aem/packages
fileTransfer.sftp.user=foo
fileTransfer.sftp.password=pass

To use a custom suffix instead of the default one, localInstance.backup.suffix property has to be set in gradle.properties file:

localInstance.backup.suffix=.backup.custom.zip

Protocols SFTP & SMB are supported by default. However if there is a need to upload backups to cloud storage like Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage it is possible by implementing custom file transfer.

aem {
    fileTransfer {
        custom("s3") {
            download { dirUrl: String, fileName: String, target: File ->
                // ...
            }
            upload { dirUrl: String, fileName: String, source: File ->
                // ...
            }
        }
    }
}

Custom file transfers could be used more widely than in only backup file resolution. It is also possible to download packages to be satisfied on instances via custom file transfer or use it in task scripting:

aem {
    tasks {
        instanceSatisfy {
            packages {
                download("s3://packages/my-package.zip")
            }
        }
        tasks {
            register("doThings") {
                fileTransfer.download("s3://packages/my-package.zip")
                fileTransfer.upload("s3://packages", `package`)
                // etc
            }
        }
    }
}

Task instanceDestroy

Destroy local AEM instance(s).

To prevent data loss, this unsafe task execution must be confirmed by parameter -Pforce.

Task instanceUp

Turn on local AEM instance(s).

Task instanceDown

Turn off local AEM instance(s).

Task instanceRestart

Turn off and then turn on local AEM instance(s).

Task instanceResolve

Resolve instance files from remote sources before running other tasks.

Files considered:

  • local instance source files (backup ZIP and AEM quickstart JAR & license file used by create task)

This task might be also useful to check amended configuration to verify HTTP urls, SMB / SSH credentials etc and fail fast when they are wrong.