[SLING-11891] SlingPostServlet: Support importing binary data from json

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: Servlets
• Labels: import json
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Yegor Kozlov
• Created: 30/May/23 11:21
• Updated: 13/Oct/23 17:06

Description

I would like to improve symmetry between export and import in Sling GET/POST servlets.

So far, JSON Renderer in Sling GET Servlet marked binary properties with an initial colon in their name and dumped the length instead of the data .

{
  "jcr:primaryType": "nt:resource",
  ":jcr:data": 20127
}

SlingPostServlet fails to import it since colon is not allowed as a JCR property name which is fine. I'd like to extend the logic, and if a property starts with a colon and it is not LONG then it would mean it carries base64 data:

{
  "jcr:primaryType": "nt:resource",
  ":jcr:data": "iVBORw0KGgoA...."
}

JSON importer would make sense of it and convert the base64 into a binary node property.

The PR is coming.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #22