Re: Exposing DB Data

[Paul Mietz Egli]

Andreas Kollegger wrote:
I'd like to expose data stored in an external database as resource  
nodes in Sling.


Like Andreas, I'm exposing database tables as a virtual resource tree  
in Sling.  I'm using Dojo's JsonRestStore as a front-end for this  
resource tree and have successfully set up ResourceProvider  
implementations for each table that will be served through Sling.  The  
problem that I'm facing is that JsonRestStore uses the Content-Range  
HTTP header and query params to narrow the number of records that are  
returned by the server.  I could get that information from the servlet  
request, but the getResource(ResourceResolver, HttpServletRequest,  
String) method in my custom resource provider is never called by  
JcrResourceResolver2.resolve(HttpServletRequest, String).  As far as I  
can tell, the getResource() method with the servlet request isn't  
called anywhere in the Sling codebase.

Any ideas on how to get headers and parameters from the servlet  
request into my ResourceProvider class?

p.