Create Product sitemap in AEM

Creating Sitemap for an eCommerce website helps in indexing all the product pages by search engine crawlers.

Let's see how to create the sitemap from a product index file.

Create a service config file
Create a scheduler
Create sitemap read and write service interface and implementation
Create models for parsing the index xml file

Sample XML file hosted on a server, we will be configuring this XML hosted URL in Scheduler

<aemquickstart

 xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" version="2.0">

 <channel>

  <Item>

   <title>

    <![CDATA[ AEM Quickstart by Kishore ]]>

   </title>

   <ProductId>12345</ProductId>

   <pubDate>02/28/2017 00:00:00.000000</pubDate>

  </Item>

  <Item>

   <title>

    <![CDATA[ Lorel Ipsum ]]>

   </title>

   <ProductId>56789</ProductId>

   <pubDate>02/28/2019 00:00:00.000000</pubDate>

  </Item>

  <Item>

   <title>

    <![CDATA[ Create Sitemap in AEM ]]>

   </title>

   <ProductId>12987</ProductId>

   <pubDate>03/28/2019 00:00:00.000000</pubDate>

  </Item>

 </channel>

</aemquickstart>

Create a service config file

package com.aemquickstart.core.configurations;

import org.osgi.service.metatype.annotations.AttributeDefinition;

import org.osgi.service.metatype.annotations.AttributeType;

import org.osgi.service.metatype.annotations.ObjectClassDefinition;

/*

 * @author Kishore Polsani

 */

@ObjectClassDefinition(name = "AEM Quickstart Sitemap Configuration", description = "This configuration helps in creating a product sitemap, reading data from URL")

public @interface SitemapConfiguration {

 @AttributeDefinition(name = "Scheduler name", description = "Name of the scheduler", type = AttributeType.STRING)

 public String name() default "XML Reader Scheduler";

 @AttributeDefinition(name = "Enabled", description = "Flag to enable/disable a scheduler", type = AttributeType.BOOLEAN)

 public boolean enabled() default true;

 @AttributeDefinition(name = "Cron expression", description = "Cron expression used by the scheduler", type = AttributeType.STRING)

 public String cronExpression() default "0 * * * * ?";

 @AttributeDefinition(name = "XML file path", description = "Path of the XML file on the system", type = AttributeType.STRING)

 public String xmlFilePath();

 @AttributeDefinition(name = "XML product index file URL", description = "URL from where XML response is to be read", type = AttributeType.STRING)

 public String xmlResponseURL();

 @AttributeDefinition(name = "JCR path", description = "Path in the JCR to store data", type = AttributeType.STRING)

 public String jcrPath() default "/content/aemquickstart/en";

 @AttributeDefinition(name = "Enter Domain", description = "Enter domain to be used in  attribute.", type = AttributeType.STRING)

 public String domain() default "https://localhost";

}

Create a scheduler

package com.aemquickstart.core.schedulers;

import org.apache.sling.commons.scheduler.ScheduleOptions;

import org.apache.sling.commons.scheduler.Scheduler;

import org.osgi.service.component.annotations.Activate;

import org.osgi.service.component.annotations.Component;

import org.osgi.service.component.annotations.Deactivate;

import org.osgi.service.component.annotations.Modified;

import org.osgi.service.component.annotations.Reference;

import org.osgi.service.metatype.annotations.Designate;

import org.slf4j.Logger;

import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

import com.aemquickstart.core.configurations.SitemapConfiguration;

import com.aemquickstart.core.models.ProductList;

import com.aemquickstart.core.services.SitemapXmlReaderService;

import com.aemquickstart.core.services.SitemapXmlWriterService;

/**

 * @author Kishore Polsani

 *

 */

@Component(immediate = true, service = Runnable.class)

@Designate(ocd = SitemapConfiguration.class)

public class SitemapScheduler implements Runnable {

 private final Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(this.getClass());

 private int schedulerId; // Id of the scheduler based on its name

 @Reference

 private Scheduler scheduler;

 @Reference

 private SitemapXmlReaderService sitemapXmlReaderService;

 @Reference

 private SitemapXmlWriterService sitemapXmlWriterService;

 private String filePath; // XML file from where sitemap data to be read

 private String productIndexFileUrl; // URL from where sitemap data to be read

 private boolean isEnabled;

 private String jcrPath;

 private String domain;

 /**

  * Activate method to initialize sitemap

  * 

  * @param sitemapXmlReaderConfiguration

  */

 @Activate

 protected void activate(SitemapConfiguration sitemapXmlReaderConfiguration) {

  schedulerId = sitemapXmlReaderConfiguration.name().hashCode();

  filePath = sitemapXmlReaderConfiguration.xmlFilePath();

  productIndexFileUrl = sitemapXmlReaderConfiguration.xmlResponseURL();

  isEnabled = sitemapXmlReaderConfiguration.enabled();

  jcrPath = sitemapXmlReaderConfiguration.jcrPath();

  domain = sitemapXmlReaderConfiguration.domain();

  log.info("Scheduler activated: flag={}", isEnabled);

 }

 /**

  * Modifies the sitemap scheduler id on modification

  * 

  * @param sitemapXmlReaderConfiguration

  */

 @Modified

 protected void modified(SitemapConfiguration sitemapXmlReaderConfiguration) {

  // Removing sitemap scheduler

  removeScheduler();

  // Updating the sitemap scheduler id

  schedulerId = sitemapXmlReaderConfiguration.name().hashCode();

  // Add the sitemap scheduler

  addScheduler(sitemapXmlReaderConfiguration);

 }

 /**

  * This method deactivates the scheduler and removes it

  * 

  * @param sitemapXmlReaderConfiguration

  */

 @Deactivate

 protected void deactivate(SitemapConfiguration sitemapXmlReaderConfiguration) {

  // Removing the scheduler

  removeScheduler();

 }

 /**

  * This method removes the scheduler

  */

 private void removeScheduler() {

  log.info("Removing scheduler: {}", schedulerId);

  // Unscheduling/removing the scheduler

  scheduler.unschedule(String.valueOf(schedulerId));

 }

 /**

  * This method adds the scheduler

  * 

  * @param schedulerConfiguration

  */

 private void addScheduler(SitemapConfiguration xmlReaderConfiguration) {

  if (isEnabled) {

   ScheduleOptions scheduleOptions = scheduler.EXPR(xmlReaderConfiguration.cronExpression());

   scheduleOptions.name(xmlReaderConfiguration.name());

   scheduleOptions.canRunConcurrently(false);

   scheduler.schedule(this, scheduleOptions);

   log.info("Sitemap Scheduler {} is added", schedulerId);

  } else {

   log.info("Sitemap Scheduler {} is disabled", schedulerId);

  }

 }

 /**

  * Overridden run method to execute Job

  */

 @Override

 public void run() {

  log.info("In Scheduler run(), isEnabled:{}", isEnabled);

  if (isEnabled) {

   ProductList productList = null;

   if (productIndexFileUrl != null && !productIndexFileUrl.isEmpty()) {

    log.info("Product XML URL: {}", productIndexFileUrl);

    productList = sitemapXmlReaderService.readXMLFromURL(productIndexFileUrl);

    sitemapXmlWriterService.createProductSiteMap(domain, productList, jcrPath, "url");

   }

  } else {

   log.info("Sitemap Scheduler is not enabled");

  }

 }

}

Create an interface to read the XML file

package com.aemquickstart.core.services;

import com.aemquickstart.core.models.ProductList;

public interface SitemapXmlReaderService {

 /**

  * This method writes XML data into JCR

  */

 public ProductList readXMLFromURL(String responseURL);

}

Create an implementation class to read the XML file

package com.aemquickstart.core.services.impl;

import java.io.BufferedReader;

import java.io.InputStreamReader;

import java.io.StringReader;

import java.net.URL;

import java.net.URLConnection;

import java.nio.charset.Charset;

import javax.xml.bind.JAXBContext;

import javax.xml.bind.JAXBException;

import javax.xml.bind.Unmarshaller;

import org.osgi.service.component.annotations.Component;

import org.slf4j.Logger;

import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

import com.aemquickstart.core.models.ProductList;

import com.aemquickstart.core.services.SitemapXmlReaderService;

@Component(immediate = true, service = SitemapXmlReaderService.class)

public class SitemapXmlReaderServiceImpl implements SitemapXmlReaderService {

 // Logger

 private final Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(this.getClass());

 // JAXB instance

 private JAXBContext jaxbContext;

 // JAXB Unmarshaller

 private Unmarshaller unmarshaller;

 @Override

 public ProductList readXMLFromURL(String responseURL) {

  log.info("In readXMLFromURL");

  URLConnection urlConnection = null;

  InputStreamReader inputStreamReader = null;

  StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();

  ProductList productList = null;

  try {

   URL url = new URL(responseURL);

   urlConnection = url.openConnection();

   if (urlConnection != null) {

    urlConnection.setReadTimeout(30 * 1000);

   }

   if (urlConnection != null && urlConnection.getInputStream() != null) {

    inputStreamReader = new InputStreamReader(urlConnection.getInputStream(), Charset.defaultCharset());

    BufferedReader bufferedReader = new BufferedReader(inputStreamReader);

    if (bufferedReader != null) {

     int eof;

     while ((eof = bufferedReader.read()) != -1) {

      builder.append((char) eof);

     }

     bufferedReader.close();

    }

   }

   log.info("closing input stream");

   inputStreamReader.close();

  } catch (Exception e) {

   log.error(e.getMessage(), e);

  }

  String xmlResponse = builder.toString();

  log.debug("xmlResponse: {}", xmlResponse);

  try {

   jaxbContext = JAXBContext.newInstance(ProductList.class);

   unmarshaller = jaxbContext.createUnmarshaller();

   productList = (ProductList) unmarshaller.unmarshal(new StringReader(xmlResponse));

   log.info("ProductList: {}", productList);

  } catch (JAXBException e) {

   log.info(e.getMessage(), e);

  }

  return productList;

 }

}

Create an model class to parse the XML

package com.aemquickstart.core.models;

import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlAccessType;

import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlAccessorType;

import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlElement;

import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlRootElement;

@XmlRootElement(name="aemquickstart")

@XmlAccessorType(XmlAccessType.FIELD)

public class ProductList {

    @XmlElement

    private Channel[] channel = new Channel[1]; 

 public Channel[] getChannel() {

  return channel;

 }

 public void setChannel(Channel[] channel) {

  this.channel = channel;

 }

}

Create Channel.java

package com.aemquickstart.core.models;

import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlAccessType;

import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlAccessorType;

import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlElement;

import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlRootElement;

@XmlAccessorType(XmlAccessType.FIELD)

@XmlRootElement(name="channel")

public class Channel {

    @XmlElement

    private Item[] Item = new Item[1]; // as the tag name in the xml file..

 public Item[] getItem() {

  return Item;

 }

 public void setItem(Item[] item) {

  Item = item;

 }

}

Create Item.java to read all elements

package com.aemquickstart.core.models;

import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlAccessType;

import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlAccessorType;

import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlElement;

import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlRootElement;

@XmlRootElement(name="Item")

@XmlAccessorType(XmlAccessType.FIELD)

public class Item {

    @XmlElement

    private String ProductId; 

    @XmlElement

    private String title; 

    @XmlElement

    private String pubDate;

    //@XmlElement

 public String getProductId() {

  return ProductId;

 }

 public void setProductId(String productId) {

  ProductId = productId;

 }

 public String getTitle() {

  return title;

 }

 public void setTitle(String title) {

  this.title = title;

 }

 public String getPubDate() {

  return pubDate;

 }

 public void setPubDate(String pubDate) {

  this.pubDate = pubDate;

 }

}

Create an interface to write the sitemap to an XML file

package com.aemquickstart.core.services;

import com.aemquickstart.core.models.ProductList;

public interface SitemapXmlWriterService {

 public void createProductSiteMap(String domain, ProductList productList, String jcrPath, String from);

}

Create an implementation class to create the sitemap

package com.aemquickstart.core.services.impl;

import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;

import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;

import java.io.InputStream;

import java.util.Calendar;

import java.util.HashMap;

import java.util.Map;

import javax.jcr.Binary;

import javax.jcr.Node;

import javax.jcr.RepositoryException;

import javax.jcr.Session;

import javax.jcr.ValueFactory;

import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;

import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;

import javax.xml.transform.Result;

import javax.xml.transform.Source;

import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory;

import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource;

import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult;

import org.apache.commons.lang3.time.FastDateFormat;

import org.apache.sling.api.resource.LoginException;

import org.apache.sling.api.resource.ResourceResolver;

import org.apache.sling.api.resource.ResourceResolverFactory;

import org.osgi.service.component.annotations.Component;

import org.osgi.service.component.annotations.Reference;

import org.slf4j.Logger;

import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

import org.w3c.dom.Document;

import org.w3c.dom.Element;

import com.aemquickstart.core.models.Channel;

import com.aemquickstart.core.models.Item;

import com.aemquickstart.core.models.ProductList;

import com.aemquickstart.core.services.SitemapXmlWriterService;

import com.day.cq.wcm.api.Page;

import com.day.cq.wcm.api.PageManager;

@Component(immediate = true, service = SitemapXmlWriterService.class)

public class SitemapXmlWriterServiceImpl implements SitemapXmlWriterService {

 // Logger

 private final Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(this.getClass());

 // Injecting ResourceResolverFactory

 @Reference

 private ResourceResolverFactory resourceResolverFactory;

 // JCR session

 private Session session;

 private Session getSession() {

  try {

   // Map for service user details

   ResourceResolver resourceResolver = getResourceResolver();

   // Getting the session by adapting the resourceResolver

   session = resourceResolver.adaptTo(Session.class);

  } catch (LoginException e) {

   log.error(e.getMessage(), e);

  }

  return session;

 }

 private ResourceResolver getResourceResolver() throws LoginException {

  Map xmlReaderMap = new HashMap<>();

  xmlReaderMap.put(ResourceResolverFactory.SUBSERVICE, "aemquickstartSubservice");

  // Getting ResourceResovler

  ResourceResolver resourceResolver = resourceResolverFactory.getServiceResourceResolver(xmlReaderMap);

  return resourceResolver;

 }

 @Override

 public void createProductSiteMap(String domain, ProductList productList, String jcrPath, String from) {

  log.info("createProductSiteMap: {}", from);

  ResourceResolver resourceResolver = null;

  try {

   session = getSession();

   if (!session.itemExists(jcrPath)) {

    log.info("Provided path does not exist. Sitemap file can't be created under {}", jcrPath);

    return;

   } else {

    DocumentBuilderFactory docFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();

    DocumentBuilder docBuilder = docFactory.newDocumentBuilder();

    Document doc = docBuilder.newDocument();

    doc.setXmlStandalone(true);

    Element rootElement = doc.createElement("urlset");

    rootElement.setAttribute("xmlns", "http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9");

    doc.appendChild(rootElement);

    addProductsToXml(domain, rootElement, jcrPath, doc, productList);

    resourceResolver = getResourceResolver();

    PageManager pgMgr = resourceResolver.adaptTo(PageManager.class);

    Page homepage = pgMgr.getPage(jcrPath);

    if (null != homepage) {

     String sitemapFile = jcrPath + "/sitemap_products.xml";

     generateXmlFile(jcrPath, doc, session, sitemapFile);

    }

   }

  } catch (Exception e) {

   log.error(e.getMessage(), e);

  }

  finally {

    resourceResolver.close();

            if(session != null) {

                session.logout();

            }

  }

 }

 private void addProductsToXml(String domain, Element rootElement, String jcrPath, Document doc,

   ProductList productList) {

  // Getting the products from ProductList

  Channel[] channels = productList.getChannel();

  // Iterate for each item present in the XML file

  log.info("Setting properties");

  Item[] products = channels[0].getItem();

  for (Item product : products) {

   String productId = product.getProductId();

   Element pdpUrlElement = doc.createElement("url");

   Element pdpLoc = doc.createElement("loc");

   String title = product.getTitle();

   String pdpUrl = domain + jcrPath + "/pdp.html/" + title.replaceAll("[^a-zA-Z0-9-]", "") + "/" + productId;

   pdpLoc.appendChild(doc.createTextNode(pdpUrl));

   pdpUrlElement.appendChild(pdpLoc);

   Calendar lastModified = Calendar.getInstance();

   if (null != lastModified) {

    Element pdpLstMod = doc.createElement("lastmod");

    FastDateFormat DATE_FORMAT = FastDateFormat.getInstance("yyyy-MM-dd");

    pdpLstMod.appendChild(doc.createTextNode(DATE_FORMAT.format(lastModified.getTimeInMillis())));

    pdpUrlElement.appendChild(pdpLstMod);

   }

   Element pdpChangeFreq = doc.createElement("changefreq");

   pdpChangeFreq.appendChild(doc.createTextNode("Weekly"));

   pdpUrlElement.appendChild(pdpChangeFreq);

   rootElement.appendChild(pdpUrlElement); // PDP page is added to

             // root.

  }

 }

 private void generateXmlFile(String jcrPath, Document doc, Session session, String sitemapFile) {

  try {

   try {

    log.info("sitemap file: {}", sitemapFile);

    if (session.itemExists(sitemapFile)) {

     log.info("Sitemap exists");

     session.removeItem(sitemapFile);

     session.save();

     log.info("Old Sitemap is deleted");

    }

   } catch (Exception e) {

    log.error("Exception while removing xml file: {} ", e);

   }

   ByteArrayOutputStream outputStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();

   Source xmlSource = new DOMSource(doc);

   Result outputTarget = new StreamResult(outputStream);

   TransformerFactory.newInstance().newTransformer().transform(xmlSource, outputTarget);

   InputStream is = new ByteArrayInputStream(outputStream.toByteArray());

   // create file at file location

   ValueFactory valueFactory = session.getValueFactory();

   Binary contentValue;

   contentValue = valueFactory.createBinary(is);

   Node homepageNode = session.getNode(jcrPath);

   Node sitemapNode = homepageNode.addNode("sitemap_products.xml", "nt:file");

   Node resNode = sitemapNode.addNode("jcr:content", "nt:resource");

   resNode.setProperty("jcr:data", contentValue);

   resNode.setProperty("jcr:mimeType", "text/xml");

   Calendar lastModified = Calendar.getInstance();

   lastModified.setTimeInMillis(lastModified.getTimeInMillis());

   resNode.setProperty("jcr:lastModified", lastModified);

   session.save();

   log.info("Sitemap is successfull created at {}", sitemapFile);

  } catch (RepositoryException rpe) {

   log.error("Exception in Text Renderer: {}", rpe);

  } catch (Exception e) {

   log.error("Exception in while writting or creating file Renderer: {}", e);

  }

 }

}

Now build the project. Open ConfigMgr and search for "AEM Quickstart Sitemap Configuration"

1. Enter Scheduler name and select enabled checkbox.
2. Enter cross expression - to update the frequency.
3. Enter the XML file URL - where you would like to read the product info.
4. Enter JCR path - where you need to upload your sitemap_products.xml file
5. Enter Domain - this value will be used while creating the product url for attribute

Once the scheduler is running, sitemap_products.xml file will be created under /content/aemquickstart/en