Bundle is NOT whitelisted in AEM

While using the loginAdministrative() method of SlingRepository class you might see an error "Bundle is not whitelisted". To get this method work we have to whitelist the bundle in OSGi configuration "Apache Sling Login Admin Whitelist" this helps us to defines which bundles can use SlingRepository.loginAdministrative().

Below is the code snippet of creating session using loginAdministartive method.

@Reference
private SlingRepository repository

Session session = repository.loginAdministrative(null);

How to get list of components in AEM?

We can get the list of components based on the project path or component group in AEM. SQL Query is powerful to filter out the component nodes and this can be easily used in the query tool of crx/de and export the results in a spreadsheet.

Below is the JCR-SQL2 query to get the list of all the components in AEM. 

SELECT * FROM [cq:Component] AS s WHERE [componentGroup] IS NOT NULL AND ISDESCENDANTNODE([/apps/aem-sample-project/components])

AEM Query Tool

 

Failed to read artifact descriptor | Maven

Problem

Failed to read artifact descriptor for com.adobe.acs:acs-aem-commons-bundle:jar:3.17.2: could not find artifact com.adobe.acs:acs-aem-commons:pom:3.17.2 in central (https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2)

Resolution

In case you are seeing this error while building the code using Maven then please try to run the maven command with -Padobe-public or setting ssl=true. Below are the sample command lines.

mvn -PautoInstallPackage -Padobe-public clean install

OR

mvn clean install -P autoInstallPackage -Dmaven.wagon.http.ssl.insecure=true -Dmaven.wagon.http.ssl.allowall=true