PowerShell Scripting to Replicate Adobe Experience Manager Data to MySQL

The CData Cmdlets for Adobe Experience Manager offer live access to Adobe Experience Manager data from within PowerShell. Using PowerShell scripts, you can easily automate regular tasks like data replication. This article will walk through using the CData Cmdlets for Adobe Experience Manager and the CData Cmdlets for MySQL in PowerShell to replicate Adobe Experience Manager data to a MySQL database.

After obtaining the needed connection properties, accessing Adobe Experience Manager data in PowerShell and preparing for replication consists of four basic steps.

The driver connects to Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) instances that expose the JCR repository over WebDAV. It supports both on-premises AEM and AEM as a Cloud Service deployments.

To establish a connection, set the following properties:

• URL: The WebDAV-enabled JCR server URL.
  • AEM as a Cloud Service: https://author-pXXXXX-eXXXXX.adobeaemcloud.com/crx/server
  • Local development: http://localhost:4502/crx/server
• User: Your AEM username.
• Password: Your AEM password.

Note: Tables are dynamically generated based on the JCR repository structure. Ensure that the configured user has sufficient permissions to access the required content paths in the AEM repository.

Collecting Adobe Experience Manager Data

1. Install the module:

   Install-Module AdobeExperienceManagerCmdlets

2. Connect to Adobe Experience Manager:

     $adobeexperiencemanager = Connect-AdobeExperienceManager  -URL $URL -User $User -Password $Password
     

3. Retrieve the data from a specific resource:

     $data = Select-AdobeExperienceManager -Connection $adobeexperiencemanager -Table "Content"
     

   You can also use the Invoke-AdobeExperienceManager cmdlet to execute pure SQL-92 statements:

     $data = Invoke-AdobeExperienceManager -Connection $adobeexperiencemanager -Query 'SELECT * FROM Content WHERE Name = @Name' -Params @{'@Name'='example'}
     

4. Save a list of the column names from the returned data.

     $columns = ($data | Get-Member -MemberType NoteProperty | Select-Object -Property Name).Name
     

Inserting Adobe Experience Manager Data into the MySQL Database

With the data and column names collected, you are ready to replicate the data into a MySQL database.

1. Install the module:

   Install-Module MySQLCmdlets

2. Connect to MySQL, using the server address and port of the MySQL server, valid user credentials, and a specific database with the table in which the data will be replicated:

     $mysql = Connect-MySQL -User $User -Password $Password -Database $Database -Server $Server -Port $Port
     

3. Loop through the Adobe Experience Manager data, store the values, and use the Add-MySQL cmdlet to insert the data into the MySQL database, one row at a time. In this example, the table will need to have the same name as the Adobe Experience Manager resource (Content) and to exist in the database.

     $data | % {
       $row = $_
       $values = @()
       $columns | % {
         $col = $_
         $values += $row.$($col)
       }
       Add-MySQL -Connection $mysql -Table "Content" -Columns $columns -Values $values
     }
     

You have now replicated your Adobe Experience Manager data to a MySQL database. This gives you freedom to work with Adobe Experience Manager data in the same way that you work with other MySQL tables, whether that is performing analytics, building reports, or other business functions.

Notes

• Once you have connected to Adobe Experience Manager and MySQL in PowerShell, you can pipe command results to perform the replication in a single line:

    Select-AdobeExperienceManager -Connection $adobeexperiencemanager -Table "Content" | % {
      $row = $_
      $values = @()
      $columns | % {
        $col = $_
        $values += $row.$($col)
      }
      Add-MySQL -Connection $mysql -Table "Content" -Columns $columns -Values $values
    }
    

• If you wish to replicate the Adobe Experience Manager data to another database using another PowerShell module, you will want to exclude the Columns, Connection, and Table columns from the data returned by the Select-AdobeExperienceManager cmdlet since those columns are used to help pipe data from one CData cmdlet to another:

    $columns = ($data | Get-Member -MemberType NoteProperty | Select-Object -Property Name).Name | ? {$_ -NotIn @('Columns','Connection','Table')}