[SLING-6790] Enable aliases even if referenced format is disabled

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: Servlets Get 2.1.24
• Component/s: Servlets
• Assignee: Carsten Ziegeler
• Reporter: Carsten Ziegeler
• Created: 25/Apr/17 08:29
• Updated: 04/Feb/23 18:19
• Resolved: 25/Apr/17 08:39

Description

When one of the default renderings is disabled and an alias exists for this, the alias rendering is disabled as well. For example, it is common to have the PDF rendering as an alias for XML (as the PDF rendering is based on using an XML pipeline including XSLT to generate PDF). If XML is disabled, PDF doesn't work either and right now, the only way to get PDF rendering work is enabling XML as well. Which might not be what you want.
So I think, if an alias exists - which is an explicit configuration - this should be enabled, regardless whether the underlying direct rendering is disabled.

Issue Links

• breaks: SLING-11767 Disabled XML renderer is still used when configured in extension alias