OSGi Events for Communities Components

Overview

When members interact with Communities features, OSGi events are sent that can trigger asynchronous listeners, like notifications or gamification (scoring and badging).

A component’s SocialEvent instance records the events as actions that occur for a topic. The SocialEvent includes a method to return a verb associated with the action. There is an n-1 relationship between actions and verbs.

For the Communities components delivered in the release, the following tables describe the verbs defined for each topic available for use.

Topics and Verbs

Calendar Component
SocialEvent topic= com/adobe/cq/social/calendar

Comments Component
SocialEvent topic= com/adobe/cq/social/comment

File Library Component
SocialEvent topic= com/adobe/cq/social/fileLibrary

Forum Component
SocialEvent topic= com/adobe/cq/social/forum

Journal Component
SocialEvent topic= com/adobe/cq/social/journal

QnA Component
SocialEvent topic = com/adobe/cq/social/qna

Reviews Component
SocialEvent topic= com/adobe/cq/social/review

Rating Component
SocialEvent topic= com/adobe/cq/social/tally

Voting Component
SocialEvent topic= com/adobe/cq/social/tally

Moderation-enabled Components
SocialEvent topic= com/adobe/cq/social/moderation

Events for Custom Components

For a custom component, the SocialEvent abstract class must be extended d to record the component’s events as actionsthat occur for a topic.

The custom event would override the method getVerb() so that an appropriate verbis returned for each action. The verb returned for an action may be one commonly used (such as POST) or one specialized for the component (such as ADD RATING). There is an n-1 relationship between actionsand verbs.

Pseudo-Code for Custom Component Event

org.osgi.service.event.Event;
com.adobe.cq.social.scf.core.SocialEvent;
com.adobe.granite.activitystreams.ObjectTypes;
com.adobe.granite.activitystreams.Verbs;

package com.mycompany.recipe;

import org.osgi.service.event.Event;
import com.adobe.cq.social.scf.core.SocialEvent;
import com.adobe.granite.activitystreams.ObjectTypes;
import com.adobe.granite.activitystreams.Verbs;

/*
 * The Recipe type, passed to RecipeEvent(), would be a custom Recipe class
 * that extends either
 * com.adobe.cq.social.scf.SocialComponent
 * or
 * com.adobe.cq.social.scf.SocialCollectionComponent
 * See https://docs.adobe.com/docs/en/aem/6-2/develop/communities/scf/server-customize.html
 */

/**
 * Defines events that are triggered on a custom component, "Recipe".
 */
public class RecipeEvent extends SocialEvent<RecipeEvent.RecipeActions> {

    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
    protected static final String PARENT_PATH = "PARENT_PATH";

    /**
     * The event topic suffix for Recipe events
     */
    public static final String RECIPE_TOPIC = "recipe";

    /**
     * @param recipe - the recipe resource on which the event was triggered
     * @param userId - the user id of the user who triggered the action
     * @param action - the recipe action that triggered this event
     */
    public RecipeEvent(final Recipe recipe, final String userId, final RecipeEvent.RecipeActions action) {
        String recipePath = recipe.getResource().getPath();
        String parentPath = (recipe.getParentComponent() != null) ?
                             recipe.getParentComponent().getResource().getPath() :
                             recipe.getSourceComponentId();
        this(recipePath, userId, parentPath, action);
    }

    /**
     * @param recipePath - the path to the recipe resource (jcr node) on which the event was triggered
     * @param userId - the user id of the user who triggered the action
     * @param parentPath - the path to the parent node of the recipe resource
     * @param action - the recipe action that triggered this event
     */
    public RecipeEvent(final String recipePath, final String userId, final String parentPath) {
        super(RECIPE_TOPIC, recipePath, userId, action,
              new BaseEventObject(recipePath, ObjectTypes.ARTICLE),
              new BaseEventObject(parentPath, ObjectTypes.COLLECTION),
              new HashMap<String, Object>(1) {
            private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
            {
                if (parentPath != null) {
                    this.put(PARENT_PATH, parentPath);
                }

            }
        });
    }

    private RecipeEvent (final Event event) {
      super(event);
    }

    /**
     * List of available recipe actions that can trigger a recipe event.
     */
    public static enum RecipeActions implements SocialEvent.SocialActions {
        RecipeAdded,
        RecipeModified,
        RecipeDeleted;

        @Override
        public String getVerb() {
            switch (this) {
                case RecipeAdded:
                    return Verbs.POST;
                case RecipeModified:
                    return Verbs.UPDATE;
                case RecipeDeleted:
                    return Verbs.DELETE;
                default:
                    throw new IllegalArgumentException("Unsupported action");
            }
        }
    }

}

Sample EventListener to Filter Activity Stream Data

It is possible to listen to events for the purpose of modifying what appears in the activity stream.

The following pseudo-code sample will remove DELETE events for Comments component from the activity stream.

Pseudo-code for EventListener

Requires latest feature pack.

package my.company.comments;

import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.Map;

import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;
import org.apache.felix.scr.annotations.Activate;
import org.apache.felix.scr.annotations.Component;
import org.apache.felix.scr.annotations.Modified;
import org.apache.felix.scr.annotations.Property;
import org.apache.felix.scr.annotations.Service;
import org.apache.sling.api.resource.Resource;
import org.apache.sling.commons.osgi.PropertiesUtil;
import org.osgi.service.component.ComponentContext;

import com.adobe.cq.social.activitystreams.listener.api.ActivityStreamProviderExtension;
import com.adobe.cq.social.commons.events.CommentEvent.CommentActions;
import com.adobe.cq.social.scf.core.SocialEvent;

@Service
@Component(metatype = true, label = "My Comment Delete Event Filter",
        description = "Prevents comment DELETE events from showing up in activity streams")
public class CommentDeleteEventActivityFilter implements ActivityStreamProviderExtension {

    @Property(name = "ranking", intValue = 10)
    protected int ranking;

    @Activate
    public void activate(final ComponentContext ctx) {
        ranking = PropertiesUtil.toInteger(ctx.getProperties().get("ranking"), 10);
    }

    @Modified
    public void update(final Map<String, Object> props) {
        ranking = PropertiesUtil.toInteger(props.get("ranking"), 10);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean evaluate(final SocialEvent<?> evt, final Resource resource) {
        if (evt.getAction() != null && evt.getAction() instanceof SocialEvent.SocialActions) {
            final SocialEvent.SocialActions action = evt.getAction();
            if (StringUtils.equals(action.getVerb(), CommentActions.DELETED.getVerb())) {
                return false;
            }
        }
        return true;
    }

    @Override
    public Map<String, ? extends Object> getActivityProperties(final SocialEvent<?> arg0, final Resource arg1) {
        return Collections.<String, Object>emptyMap();
    }

    @Override
    public Map<String, ? extends Object> getActorProperties(final SocialEvent<?> arg0, final Resource arg1) {
        return Collections.<String, Object>emptyMap();
    }

    @Override
    public String getName() {
        return "My Comment Delete Event Filter";
    }

    @Override
    public Map<String, ? extends Object> getObjectProperties(final SocialEvent<?> arg0, final Resource arg1) {
        return Collections.<String, Object>emptyMap();
    }

    /* Ensure a custom extension is registered with a ranking lower than any existing implementation in the product. */
    @Override
    public int getRanking() {
        return this.ranking;
    }

    @Override
    public Map<String, ? extends Object> getTargetProperties(final SocialEvent<?> arg0, final Resource arg1) {
        return Collections.<String, Object>emptyMap();
    }

    @Override
    public String[] getStreamProviderPid() {
        return new String[]{"*"};
    }

}

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