Extending Storage Type in SDL Tridion DOCS 2013 SP2

Recently, I got the opportunity to explore and work on SDL Tridion Docs 2013 SP2 where I need to develop an extension. The client is using their own ElasticSearch instance and wants us to continue using the same instance to index DOCS data in it.

To start with I first explored the SDL DOCS documentation to understand if at all storage extension is supported or not and yes Extension is available not just storage but you can extend the Deployer as well :). "Maybe in the next blog".

After, spending some time on Documentation I was clear what I need to do in order to extend the storage type.

For the initial steps "How to set up the JAVA project and generate custom.JAR" you can follow my previous blogs. In SDL Tridion DOCS, we have the following Content Delivery roles and with that data is published into UDP (Unified Delivery Platform).

• Discovery Service
• Content Service
• Context Service
• IQ Service for Indexing and Querying data In/From Elastic
• Contextual Image Delivery
• UGC Service

Coming back, to Extending the Storage we need to configure the Deployer, here we need to deploy custom jar, customDAO.xml and configure the cd_storage file, similar to what we do when extending the storage with Tridion WEB/SITES.

Below is the output captured in the log file in the JSON format after we deployed the custom jar file that contains code to extend and published the item from SDL Tridion DOCS 2013 SP2.

JSON in deployer logs

JSON of Dummy content

In the next blog, we will see what else we can do with this and how much flexible the extension point of storage is, Until then.

Happy Coding and Keep Sharing!!!