[SLING-2782] Try to use sling:resourceType as a node type for node creation

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: JCR Resource 2.2.4
• Fix Version/s: JCR Resource 2.2.6, API 2.4.0
• Component/s: JCR
• Assignee: Carsten Ziegeler
• Reporter: Carsten Ziegeler
• Created: 10/Mar/13 13:14
• Updated: 18/Apr/13 14:11
• Resolved: 04/Apr/13 09:37

Description

Right now, creating resources through the resource API (ResourceResolver#create) still requires some knowledge about the underlying storage especially in the case of JCR - in many cases you need to provide the primary node type.
We could relax this and use the sling:resourceType as the node - but only if jcr:primaryType is not specified and sling:resourceType contains a valid node type name.
This is in line with the implementation of the resource type handling for jcr resources: if the node does not have a sling:resourceType, the node type is returned.
In addition, we defined that e.g. for files all resource providers should return nt:file as the resource type and nt:folder for folders. So making this work the other way round, fits into this.