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AEM - Workaround Solution for Clean up of Packages from Package Manager in AEM

AEM Packages Clean up from Package Manager 

Most of the times, the repository spaces get occupied with a lot of content and as well as packages. We create the packages to bring down the content from higher environments to lower environments or vice-versa and most of the times, we don't delete them from the environment. This will also increase the usage of the repository and cleaning up at some point later is very painful, as there is no direct way to check the larger packages and delete them.

There is no sorting option available in the package manager and when you have hundreds of packages, it will be a tedious process to go through every package and clean it up. Currently, only below sort options are available in the system.
  • Name
  • Last modified
  • Installation date
  • Recently added

Below solution is also a manual process but it will provide the packages which are of a size more than 30/40/50 MB(this can be configurable) by running a small script in java using any IDE. I tried it from my end and it worked fine.

This is really a weird way of getting the data, but still works :)


I tried the below steps:

Open the Package manager http://localhost:1502/crx/packmgr/index.jsp

  • Select all the data using "Ctrl + A" option (regular selection of all the text on the page
  • Paste the copied text into a text file and save the file

    the file will have a lot of unused data, but you can ignore them. The packages data will be shown as below in the file.
    • 

aem-flash.ui.content-1.0-SNAPSHOT.zip
Version: 1.0-SNAPSHOT | Last installed Sep 9 | admin

UI content package for aem-flash

Share  |  754.5 KB

core.wcm.components.content-2.0.4.zip
Version: 2.0.4 | Last installed Sep 9 | admin

Adobe Experience Manager Core WCM Components Content Package

Share  |  335.3 KB

core.wcm.components.config-2.0.4.zip
Version: 2.0.4 | Last installed Sep 9 | admin

Adobe Experience Manager Core WCM Components Configurations

Share  |  12.3 KB

core.wcm.components.all-2.0.4.zip
Version: 2.0.4 | Last installed Sep 9 | admin

Adobe Experience Manager Core WCM Components Full Package

Share  |  374.6 KB

aem-flash.ui.apps-1.0-SNAPSHOT.zip
Version: 1.0-SNAPSHOT | Last installed Sep 9 | admin

UI apps package for aem-flash

Share  |  443.5 KB

Line 1: Package Name (with .zip extension)
Line 2: Version and installation details
Line 3: Description of the Package
Line 4: Size of the package and Share status

We should be interested in Line 1 and Line 4 of all the packages. As the format is almost similar I made use of the structure as-is.


Java Class to read the file and get the required package data


MAX_SIZE  -- variable is the size of the package.

I have given it as 3 in the current sample which will display all the files which are greater than 3 MB. Update the number to a bigger number to retrieve the packages greater than that number like 100 MB or more.

public static final int MAX_SIZE = 100; --> Will return all the packages greater than 100 MB




package com.local;



import java.io.BufferedReader;

import java.io.File;

import java.io.FileReader;

import java.io.IOException;



/**

 * The Class ExtractPackageData.

 *

 * @author sudheerdvn

 */

public class ExtractPackageData {



 /** The Constant MAX_SIZE. Update the constant to the display the files greater than the max size. */

 public static final int MAX_SIZE = 3;



 /**

  * The main method.

  *

  * @param args the arguments

  * @throws IOException Signals that an I/O exception has occurred.

  */

 public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {

  readFileData();

 }



 /**

  * Read file data.

  */

 private static void readFileData() {

  File file = new File("C:\\data\\packagesinfo.txt");

  BufferedReader bufferredReader = null;

  try {

   bufferredReader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(file));

   String line;

   String zipFileName = null;

   int count = 0;

   while ((line = bufferredReader.readLine()) != null) {

    if (line.contains(".zip")) {

     zipFileName = line;

    }

    if (line.contains(" MB")) {

     String packageSize = line.substring(line.indexOf("|  ") + 3, line.length());

     /*

      * Printing only the packages which are more than a specific size, if you want all of them you can

      * remove the condition

      */

     if (checkPackageSize(packageSize)) {

      count++;

      System.out.println(zipFileName);

      System.out.println(packageSize);

     }

     zipFileName = null;

    }

   }

   System.out.println("number of mb packages are : " + count);

  } catch (IOException e) {

   e.printStackTrace();

  } finally {

   if (null != bufferredReader) {

    try {

     bufferredReader.close();

    } catch (IOException e) {

     e.printStackTrace();

    }

   }

  }

 }



 /**

  * Check package size.

  *

  * @param packageSize the package size

  * @return true, if successful

  */

 private static boolean checkPackageSize(String packageSize) {

 boolean isBig = false;
 String size = packageSize.substring(0, packageSize.indexOf(" MB"));
       try {
    Float sizeInFloat = Float.parseFloat(size);
    if (sizeInFloat > MAX_SIZE) {
  isBig = true;
    }
 } catch (Exception e) {
     e.printStackTrace();
 }
 return isBig;
   }

}



Result:

aem-groovy-console-12.0.0.zip
6.6 MB
we.retail.community.enablement.common-1.11.84.zip
6.5 MB
we.retail.commons.content-3.0.0.zip
92.9 MB
we.retail.all-3.0.0.zip
95 MB
aemds-guide-content-5.0.118.zip
3.5 MB
cq-social-thirdparty-pkg-1.4.4.zip
3.8 MB
cq-projects-content-1.4.108.zip
3.6 MB
cq-dam-scene7-viewers-content-2.2.52.zip
3.5 MB
cq-dam-sample-content-1.3.26.zip
13.7 MB
cq-dam-content-2.4.708.zip
5.7 MB
....
...
..


Sometimes, we may not know which packages to be deleted, so it's a better option to search the package name in the package manager by using the browser search (which is faster) than searching in the search box and just delete the required packages. Using the above-mentioned solution, there will be no impact on the server and it is completely offline process and does not impact AEM performance during the script execution.
We can also automate the process by using the CURL commands

curl -u admin:admin -F cmd=delete http://localhost:4502/crx/packmgr/service/.json/etc/packages/my_packages/test.zip
But one problem over here is to get the actual path of the package. We will not get the path in the above solution.

Another way to get this automated is to read the /etc/packages path either by iterating through the nodes or using the JSON format available by default and get the package names along with the path.

You can combine both these solutions to automate this and generate the curl commands or delete it using API.

You can also try directly getting the size of the packages by reading the node data instead of the above process.


Hope this helps for many like me :)


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