How to deploy rep:policy files via maven?

Question

I've added some extra ACLs to /home/groups and /home/users by adding _rep_policy.xml files for each, but can't seem to get them to deploy. I added the following lines to my vault filter.xml

<filter root="/home/users/rep:policy" mode="replace"/>
<filter root="/home/groups/rep:policy" mode="replace"/>

Both have contents like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<jcr:root xmlns:jcr="http://www.jcp.org/jcr/1.0" xmlns:rep="internal"
    jcr:primaryType="rep:ACL">
    <allow
        jcr:primaryType="rep:GrantACE"
        rep:principalName="everyone"
        rep:privileges="{Name}[jcr:read]"/>
</jcr:root>

But when I run maven, I can see everything around them get deployed, but not these two. If I try to install the package directly through package manager, it works only if I set Access Control Handling to "Replace". I don't know how to configure this in maven.

Answer 1

The package properties are configured in the configuration section of vault plugin in POM. To enable ACL import in the package add the below configurations to the POM

<configuration>
        <properties>
             <acHandling>Overwrite</acHandling>
        </properties>
</configuration>

The documentation for the vault plugin is at http://docs.adobe.com/docs/en/cq/5-6-1/core/how_to/how_to_use_the_vlttool/vlt-mavenplugin.html

Answer 2

so this is answered properly once and for all... update you pom build plugin "com.day.jcr.vault":

<plugin>
    <groupId>com.day.jcr.vault</groupId>
    <artifactId>content-package-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>0.0.24</version>
    <extensions>true</extensions>
    <configuration>
        <failOnError>true</failOnError>
        <username>${crx.username}</username>
        <password>${crx.password}</password>
        <properties>
            <acHandling>merge_preserve</acHandling>
        </properties>
    </configuration>
</plugin>

acHandling options: - ignore - overwrite - merge - merge_preserve - clear

Answer 3

Small addendum:

The acHandling options are documented not in the maven-plugin but in the aem and jackrabbit packages documentation

https://docs.adobe.com/docs/en/aem/6-2/administer/content/package-manager.html and https://jackrabbit.apache.org/filevault/apidocs/org/apache/jackrabbit/vault/fs/io/AccessControlHandling.html

the content-package-maven-plugin merely provides access to all package settings.