Storage Extension changes in SDL Tridion 2013

Question

Using SDL Tridion 2013 SP1, I am working with Storage Extension (Written with SDL Tridion 2011 and upgraded to make it compatible with SDL Tridion 2013 SP1). In this storage extension, I am trying to get the component presentation of a dynamic component being published.

Earlier in SDL Tridion 2011, this can be retrieved by using the com.tridion.Storage.ComponentPresentation.getContent() method which returns the Component Presentation as string. However, in SDL Tridion 2013 SP1, this method has been updated to return the component presentation as byte[] instead of string.

Is there some another method through which I can get string presentation of the CP or I am in trouble to change the code everywhere and explicitly convert the byte[] to string by standard java code - Also, will it be possible if I convert this byte[] to string, it will give me the Component Presentation published?

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Indeed the com.tridion.storage.ComponentPresentation class was changed. The create, remove and update methods now receive the Component Presentation content as byte-array.

If you need the string contents, you can simple do:

    @Override
    public void create(
         ComponentPresentation itemToCreate,
         ComponentPresentationTypeEnum componentPresentationType) throws StorageException
    {
        String actualContent = new String(itemToCreate.getContent(),"UTF-8");
    }

Answer 2

I remember facing the same issue. I went with converting the byte[] into a String the "java-way". As far as I remember the byte[] contains the published content, so yes, by converting it to a String it would give you the published content. Just remember the Encoding you want to use for such conversion, if you are publishing UTF-8, then use UTF-8, if you know what I mean...

And I am afraid you will have to update your code to use the new method...