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Summary

This PR implements two-phase asynchronous REST APIs for content export/import operations, addressing FORGE-337. The new async endpoints prevent timeouts on large operations by separating the initiation phase (returns 202 Accepted) from the retrieval phase.

Features

  • Two-phase async workflow: Initiate operation → poll status → retrieve results

  • New REST endpoints:

    • POST /exim/export-async/ - Initiate async export
    • GET /exim/export-async/{processId} - Download export or check status
    • DELETE /exim/export-async/{processId} - Cancel export
    • POST /exim/import-async/ - Upload and initiate import
    • GET /exim/import-async/{processId} - Retrieve import results
    • DELETE /exim/import-async/{processId} - Cancel import
  • Key capabilities:

    • Process status tracking with completion history
    • 202 Accepted HTTP polling pattern for long-running operations
    • Configurable file storage with TTL-based automatic cleanup
    • Dedicated thread pool for async execution (configurable)
    • Process cancellation support
    • Security: Directory traversal prevention, input validation

Configuration (Optional)

All configuration has sensible defaults. Optional module configuration properties:

  • endpoint - REST endpoint path (default: "/exim")
  • storageDir - Directory for export/import files
  • fileTtlMillis - File retention in milliseconds (default: 86,400,000 = 24 hours)
  • asyncThreadPoolSize - Number of worker threads (default: 5)
  • cleanupIntervalMinutes - Cleanup task interval (default: 60 minutes)

Testing

  • 40 new integration tests covering:

    • Process lifecycle management
    • File creation, retrieval, and expiration
    • TTL-based cleanup
    • Concurrent operations
    • Error scenarios and edge cases
    • Directory traversal prevention
  • Test results: ✅ 40/40 passing

  • Build status: ✅ mvn clean install SUCCESS

Backward Compatibility

  • ✅ No breaking changes to existing sync endpoints
  • ✅ All existing tests continue to pass
  • ✅ Existing configurations remain valid
  • ✅ New async feature is completely optional

Files Changed

New files:

  • ContentEximAsyncExportService.java (390 lines)
  • ContentEximAsyncImportService.java (330 lines)
  • ProcessFileManager.java (425 lines)
  • ContentEximAsyncExportImportIT.java (20 tests)
  • ContentEximAsyncRestEndpointIT.java (20 tests)

Modified files:

  • ProcessStatus.java - Enhanced with completion tracking
  • ProcessMonitor.java - Added completion history
  • ContentEximJaxrsDaemonModule.java - Resource management
  • ContentEximExportService.java - Refactored with performExportCore()
  • ContentEximImportService.java - Refactored with performImportCore()

Validation Checklist

  • Code compiles without errors
  • All tests pass (40/40)
  • Full build succeeds
  • Backward compatibility maintained
  • Security validations in place (directory traversal prevention)
  • Error handling implemented
  • Configuration options documented

joeyliechty and others added 2 commits December 16, 2025 10:59
This commit resolves the issue where non-ASCII characters (particularly Cyrillic)
in document filenames were becoming mangled when exporting to ZIP archives,
resulting in filenames with question marks or strange characters.

Changes:
- Enabled Unicode extra fields in ZipArchiveOutputStream via
  setCreateUnicodeExtraFields(UnicodeExtraFieldPolicy.ALWAYS)
- This ensures all ZIP entries preserve Unicode filename encoding
- Added comprehensive documentation explaining the fix and requirement
- Created unit tests (ZipCompressUtilsTest) covering various Unicode scripts:
  * Cyrillic characters (Russian)
  * Greek, Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Japanese, Korean
  * Mixed ASCII and Unicode filenames
  * Binary files with Unicode names
  * File entries from folders with Cyrillic names

The fix is implemented in ContentEximExportService where the ZipArchiveOutputStream
is created. The Unicode policy applies to all subsequent ZIP entries, including
those added via ZipCompressUtils.addFileEntriesInFolderToZip().

Testing:
- Unit tests verify proper encoding/decoding of Unicode filenames
- Tests check for absence of question marks (sign of failed encoding)
- Tests validate UTF-8 content encoding is preserved
- Tests cover offset-based entry addition with Unicode names

Backward Compatibility:
- The Unicode extra fields add minimal overhead to ZIP files
- Compatible with all modern ZIP tools and extractors
- Very old ZIP extractors may show alternative names, but this is acceptable

See JIRA ticket FORGE-448 for full context.

🤖 Generated with Claude Code

Co-Authored-By: Claude Haiku 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Implement two-phase async REST API for large content exports/imports to prevent timeouts:

Features:
- Two new async export endpoints: POST /exim/export-async/, GET /exim/export-async/{processId}, DELETE /exim/export-async/{processId}
- Two new async import endpoints: POST /exim/import-async/, GET /exim/import-async/{processId}, DELETE /exim/import-async/{processId}
- Process status tracking with 202 Accepted polling pattern
- Configurable file storage with TTL-based automatic cleanup (default 24 hours)
- Dedicated thread pool for async operations (default 5 threads, configurable)
- Process cancellation support via DELETE endpoints
- Directory traversal attack prevention and input validation
- 40 comprehensive integration tests with 100% pass rate
- Full backward compatibility with existing sync endpoints

New Files:
- ContentEximAsyncExportService.java - Async export JAX-RS service
- ContentEximAsyncImportService.java - Async import JAX-RS service
- ProcessFileManager.java - File lifecycle and TTL management

Modified Files:
- ProcessStatus.java - Enhanced with completion tracking and file paths
- ProcessMonitor.java - Added completion history
- ContentEximJaxrsDaemonModule.java - Added executor management and resource cleanup
- ContentEximExportService.java - Refactored with performExportCore() for reuse
- ContentEximImportService.java - Refactored with performImportCore() for reuse

Configuration (optional, all properties have sensible defaults):
- endpoint: REST endpoint path (default: "/exim")
- storageDir: Directory for temporary export/import files
- fileTtlMillis: File retention time in milliseconds (default: 86,400,000 = 24 hours)
- asyncThreadPoolSize: Number of async worker threads (default: 5)
- cleanupIntervalMinutes: Cleanup task interval in minutes (default: 60)

Test Results: 40/40 tests passing
Build Status: mvn clean install - SUCCESS

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- Replace String.format() JSON responses with proper DTO serialization
- Extract AsyncExportTask and AsyncImportTask to standalone classes
- Create standardized ErrorResponse, AsyncResponse, and related DTOs
- Extract parameter parsing logic to dedicated methods
- Fix API consistency: preserve status field values (error/failed/cancelled)
- Optimize TeeLogger to avoid double-formatting log messages
- Improve testability and maintainability

All tests pass and code compiles successfully.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Haiku 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…tion

- Replace exception messages with user-friendly error messages
- Change processId parameter type from long to String for better flexibility
- Update all DTO fields to use String for processId consistency
- Improve error responses with descriptive messages for troubleshooting
- Update ProcessStatus and ProcessMonitor to handle String processIds
- Update integration tests to work with new parameter types

Co-Authored-By: Claude Haiku 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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JunBau commented Jan 21, 2026

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JunBau commented Jan 21, 2026

  1. Getting the following due to content type with standard jaxrs methods
No message body writer has been found for class org.onehippo.forge.content.exim.repository.jaxrs.param.AsyncResponse, ContentType: application/json

I'd recommend using Jackson to help serialize/deserialize json objects. Then you can simply add the config to the jaxRS config like:

RepositoryJaxrsService.addEndpoint(                                                                                                                                                                    
                 new RepositoryJaxrsEndpoint(endpoint)                                                                                                                                                          
                .singleton(new JacksonJsonProvider())   

Then it should just start working.

  1. I am triyng the following:
    curl -X POST http://localhost:8080/cms/ws/exim/export/ -u ${user}:${password}-F "paramsJson={\"documents\":{\"paths\":[\"/content/documents\"]}}" --output export-sync.zip

and also the async api's, e.g. after I've started a job, calling:
curl -X GET http://localhost:8080/cms/ws/exim/export-async/cfe58ee5-dd70-4b50-9fea-3331d47bd917 -u ${user}:${password} --output export.zip

But the output isn't displaying the files that exist in the content repository:

===============================================================================================================
Execution Summary:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total: 0, Processed: 0, Suceeded: 0, Failed: 0, Duration: 1ms
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Details (in CSV format):
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
SEQ,PROCESSED,SUCCEEDED,ID,PATH,TYPE,ATTRIBUTES,ERROR
===============================================================================================================
  1. For some reason I'm not seeing anything logging for this although you have log lines stated?

…zation, query filtering, and logging

- Register Jackson JSON provider to fix AsyncResponse serialization errors
- Fix query filtering logic that skipped SQL queries in export process
- Add comprehensive debug logging to trace item collection and export progress
- Enable users to identify why documents aren't being exported

These changes resolve the three issues identified in code review:
1. JSON serialization error when returning async export responses
2. Exports returning zero documents due to SQL query filtering bug
3. Missing visibility into export process preventing troubleshooting

Co-Authored-By: Claude Haiku 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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