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java portlet for oracle portal

Hi All,

This seems like such a simple question, but nobody on Oracle's site seems to be able to come up with a response to it, so I thought I would give it a go here.

This is driving me nuts for a while now! Can somebody please please help me figure out what is wrong? I wish to get the user's First Name as it is stored in OID.

The code below seems as if it should work, but it only gives me the username, instead of the user's first name. Can anyone see if they know why?

imports:
oracle.portal.provider.v2.render.PortletRenderRequest
oracle.portal.provider.v2.http.HttpCommonConstants
oracle.portal.provider.v2.http.ServletProviderUser
oracle.portal.provider.v2.oid.OidManager
oracle.portal.provider.v2.ProviderContext
java.util.ResourceBundle

Work:
PortletRenderRequest pReq = (PortletRenderRequest)
request.getAttribute(HttpCommonConstants.PORTLET_RENDER_REQUEST);

ProviderContext pc = pReq.getProviderInstance().getProviderContext();

OidManager oidman = pReq.getProviderInstance().getOidManager();

String first_name = (oidman != null) ? pReq.getUser().getFirstName().toString() : pReq.getUser().getName().toString();

Thanks in advance!
Lisa

CEHJ

Try finding out what names are available:

System.out.println((Collections.list(pReq.getAttributeNames()));

Mick Barry

is oidman null, or is it returning the wrong name?

CEHJ

This discusses how to use the OidManager:

http://portalstudio.oracle.com/pls/ops/docs/FOLDER/COMMUNITY/PDK/jpdk/v2/doc/oid/installing.oid.portlets.htm

Mick Barry

Are you setting the manager

http://www.phaos.com/resources/docs/Phaos_Crypto_2.2.3/apidoc/com/phaos/utils/OIDManager.html#setOIDManager(com.phaos.utils.OIDManager)

Or using the default manager?

Lucky48390

ASKER

Hi Objects, oidman is returning null. So I am left with LMMXP instead of Lisa. Also, I am using an Oracle API and there is no setOidManager() class in it. There are classes to set LDAP information. Do you think i would need to do all of that?

CEHJ, the OidManager has been configured properly

Thanks for all your input - i really appreciate it

Mick Barry

Where do you initialise the provider?

Lucky48390

ASKER

I thought that the object would be out there waiting for me to grab in the portal instance. So, I tried a different approach, and am now receiving a "Listener returned the following message: 500 Internal Server Error" at the line of code containing the asterisks...

PortletRenderRequest pReq = (PortletRenderRequest)
request.getAttribute(HttpCommonConstants.PORTLET_RENDER_REQUEST);
ProviderContext pc = pReq.getProviderInstance().getProviderContext();

***************OidManager oidman = new OidManager(pc);***********************

DirContext userContext = oidman.getUserLDAPContext(pReq.getUser().getUserDN(),pReq.getUser().getSubscriberDN());

ResourceBundle bundle = ResourceBundle.getBundle("welcome_portlet.MlsResourceBundle", pReq.getLocale());

String first_name = (pReq.getUser().isLDAPEnabled()) ? oidman.getUserProperty(pReq.getUser().getUserDN(),pReq.getUser().getSubscriberDN(), "givenname") : pReq.getUser().getName().toString();

CEHJ

Try

OidManager oidman = pReq.getProviderInstance().getOidManager();

Mick Barry

> OidManager oidman = pReq.getProviderInstance().getOidManager();

That returns null

CEHJ

If it returns null, as opposed to causing NPE that may suggest that the OidManager is not configured properly

Lucky48390

ASKER

It returns null. That is how it was programmed originally. It does not throw an exception. I will verify again that it is configured properly.

SOLUTION

CEHJ

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Lucky48390

ASKER

Ok - i'm back... Sorry it took so long. DBA's have tripple verified that the OidManager is configured properly... :( This is so irritating, I might consider calling the pl/sql api...

Lucky48390

ASKER

Ok - it didn't matter how i did it the Oracle JPDK API would not work! So i said forget it and used the JNDI java api - and it worked on the first try!

I'm going to split the points b/w the two of you anyways because you have both helped me out so much in the past. :)

Thanks for your efforts!

CEHJ

:-)

Mick Barry

Good to hear u got it working :)