Obtain PublicationPath from Deployer API

Question

I'm trying to access the publication data (PUBLICATION_PATH) by its publicationId in a java class with the deployer API, but I'm not able to find any class or method to map the Publication object.

With odata seems too complicated to such a little need, and I'm not sure I can access de odata webservice.

" ... new Publication(pubId); " creates an empty publication.

Is there a way to access de persistence model of the database? My solution is in the following class/method:

JPAPublicationDAO.findById(int publicationId)

In the public API the only class of JPA is "JPAQueryDAO". So I don't know if it's possible to access JPAPublicationDAO.

Does anyone knows how can I do it?

Answer 1

The proper way to get a publication already stored in the Broker storage is to use the PublicationDAO. Here is an example of how this could be done (for a publication if Id=3):

final int publicationId = 3;
final PublicationDAO publicationDAO = (PublicationDAO) StorageManagerFactory.getDAO(publicationId, StorageTypeMapping.PUBLICATION);
final Publication publication = publicationDAO.findById(publicationId);
if (publication != null) {
    System.out.println(publication.getPublicationPath());
}

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

In a deployer extension you should probably use the com.tridion.transport.transportpackage.Publication class, but can't really find a good example right now.

It seems like you'd have to load this from the current ProcessingInstructions rather than trying to initialize a new one (as it could be the first time you're publishing something from a given publication and therefore the Storage layer wouldn't know about this publication yet).