DocumentationAEMHTL Guide

HTL Global Objects

Last update: Thu Jun 01 2023 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

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  • Developer

Without having to specify anything, HTL provides access to many objects useful to the developer. These objects are in addition to any that may be introduced through the Use-API.

NOTE
For developers familiar with JSP development in AEM, HTL provides access to all objects that were commonly available in JSP after including global.jsp.

Enumerable Objects

These objects provide convenient access to commonly used information. Their content can be accessed with dot notation, and they can be iterated-through using data-sly-list or data-sly-repeat.

Variable Name
Description
Backed By
properties
List of properties of the current resource
org.apache.sling.api.resource.ValueMap
pageProperties
List of page properties of the current page
org.apache.sling.api.resource.ValueMap
inheritedPageProperties
List of inherited page properties of the current page
org.apache.sling.api.resource.ValueMap

Java-backed Objects

Each of the following objects is backed by the corresponding Java object.

Variable Name
Description
component
com.day.cq.wcm.api.components.Component
componentContext
com.day.cq.wcm.api.components.ComponentContext
currentContentPolicy
com.day.cq.wcm.api.policies.ContentPolicy
currentContentPolicyProperties
com.day.cq.wcm.api.policies.ContentPolicy
currentDesign
com.day.cq.wcm.api.designer.Design
currentNode
javax.jcr.Node
currentPage
com.day.cq.wcm.api.Page
currentSession
javax.servlet.http.HttpSession
currentStyle
com.day.cq.wcm.api.designer.Style
designer
com.day.cq.wcm.api.designer.Designer
editContext
com.day.cq.wcm.api.components.EditContext
log
org.slf4j.Logger
out
java.io.PrintWriter
pageManager
com.day.cq.wcm.api.PageManager
reader
java.io.BufferedReader
request
org.apache.sling.api.SlingHttpServletRequest
resolver
org.apache.sling.api.resource.ResourceResolver
resource
org.apache.sling.api.resource.Resource
resourceDesign
com.day.cq.wcm.api.designer.Design
resourcePage
com.day.cq.wcm.api.Page
response
org.apache.sling.api.SlingHttpServletResponse
sling
org.apache.sling.api.scripting.SlingScriptHelper
slyWcmHelper
com.adobe.cq.sightly.WCMScriptHelper
wcmmode
com.adobe.cq.sightly.SightlyWCMMode
xssAPI
com.adobe.granite.xss.XSSAPI

JavaScript-backed Objects

It is possible to back HTL logic with JavaScript. However the preferred or recommended method is by using Sling Models.

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