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in Adobe CQ (AEM) how to iterate through a list of resources using `data-sly-list` and `data-sly-resource` in sightly?

In AEM 6.1, with a structure like this:

 - Page
   - form node
     - parsys
       - node 1
       - node 2
       - ...
       - node n

The original form has the following code which works <div data-sly-resource="${ 'parsys' @ resourceType='foundation/components/parsys' }" data-sly-unwrap>

I'm trying to update the form component that injects something before the last node n. On the form node, I have the following code:

<div data-sly-list.children="${resource.listChildren}">
    <div data-sly-list.fields="${children.listChildren}">
        <div data-sly-test=${fieldsList.last}> DO SOMETHING BEFORE LAST NODE</div>
        <div data-sly-resource="${fields}"></div>
    </div>
</div>

The data-sly-resource seems to cause the server to hang, with very high cpu usage while the browser is waiting for response. I have to terminate the server process and restart it.

I have tried <div data-sly-resource="${fields @ resourceType = fields.resourceType}"></div> but it doesn't seem to render the fields as expected.

Is this the right way of iterating through nodes?

Update: Looked in the massive error.log file, and it seems the CPU spike was caused by infinite loop of RecursionTooDeepException - which I don't see where the recursion is.

Solution

  • According to the Sightly documentation on the Resource block statement, you need to pass in a path to the resource, either relative or absolute. I was able to make your code work by changing <div data-sly-resource="${fields}"></div> to <div data-sly-resource="${fields.path}"></div>.

    <div data-sly-list.children="${resource.listChildren}">
    <div data-sly-list.fields="${children.listChildren}">
        <div data-sly-test=${fieldsList.last}> DO SOMETHING BEFORE LAST NODE</div>
        <div data-sly-resource="${fields.path}"></div>
    </div>
</div>

    If you haven't already downloaded the Sightly REPL, I would highly suggest it to test and debug scenarios such as this one.