[SLING-8849] CA Config HTL bindings value provider is too limited: Unable to influence the source of adaption

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: Context-Aware Configuration Impl 1.5.0
• Fix Version/s: Context-Aware Configuration SPI 1.4.0, Context-Aware Configuration Impl 1.6.0, Context-Aware Configuration Mock Plugin 1.4.0
• Component/s: Extensions
• Labels: pull-request-available
• Environment: AEM 6.x
• Assignee: Stefan Seifert
• Reporter: Henry Kuijpers
• Created: 15/Nov/19 09:33
• Updated: 07/Jan/22 07:27
• Resolved: 22/Dec/21 22:29

Description

The provided ConfigurationBindingsValueProvider is too limited, due to missing extension points: It would be beneficial for project implementations to be able to influence the source of adaption for the config. See also the implementation of the getBindings() method: https://github.com/apache/sling-org-apache-sling-caconfig-impl/blob/master/src/main/java/org/apache/sling/caconfig/impl/ConfigurationBindingsValueProvider.java#L77. 

This should not be tied to the current resource necessarily, but instead be tied to the current resource by default, but leave options open for overriding this behavior i.e. in CMSes where you might want to use another object to to act as the determinator of the context.

See also the discussion in: https://wcm-io.atlassian.net/browse/WCON-75

Issue Links

• is depended upon by: SLING-7256 Sling Models injector for CAConfig
• is related to: SLING-9977 add context aware configurations in pipes bindings
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #1