Automatically Creating Communities with G6

Question

This should be pretty straightforward but its not. We have upgraded our development server to G6 and are working on a system to create communities automatically. Our code called the POrtalObjectsFactory.CreateSession() to create a session but then it complains that Init must be called first. To call Init, you need an IOKContext which is part of com.plumtree.openkernel.config. The G6 API has a broken link on the page that has the PortalObjectsFactory.Init method to IOKContext.
We have seen that in Version 5, you didn't need to do this but in G6 you have to. We need to understand how to Init the PortalOBjectsFactory so we can create a community. Thanks
Below is our code:
public int CreateCommunity(string name, int templateID, int folderID){int communityID = -1;IPTSession mIPTSession = PortalObjectsFactory.CreateSession();IPTCommunity mIPTCommunity = null;IPTServerContext mIPTServerContext = null;mIPTSession.Connect(ms_UserName, ms_Password, null);mIPTCommunity = (IPTCommunity) mIPTSession.GetCommunities().Create(folderID);mIPTCommunity.SetName(name);mIPTCommunity.SetCommunityTemplateID(templateID);mIPTServerContext = (IPTServerContext) mIPTCommunity.GetInterfaces("IPTServerContext");mIPTServerContext.Store();mIPTServerContext.UnlockObject();communityID = mIPTCommunity.GetObjectID();return communityID;}

Answer 1

Here is an explanation of the changes from 5.x to 6.0 and the extra step needed in getting it to work:
I had this exact same problem when I first tried to init a session - I had hoped they put it in some readme files of the changes, but oh well. I'm pasting an explanation given to me about the changes, and below is a .jsp fiile I created that got this working.
In 5.x portal settings were located using a set of environment variables which had to be in place before you could create and use a session. In Portal 6.0, that requirement has been replaced by leaving it up to the client to locate and load the configuration files, hence the extra step of feeding config data manually to the factory.
IOKContext is the interface that the portal will use for loading its data. You generally load it with the following call:IOKContext context = OKConfigFactory.createInstance("MyDirectory", "MyContextURN");
The portal's config directory is under the Martok install directory and the context name for the portal is, I think, "portal". OpenConfig will load all the config files in the config directory (and its subdirectories) and provide to the portal factory all the settings that are used by the context named "portal".
Here is my jsp code, I hope you can utilize most of the stuff for .netLillian
<%@ page language="java" import="java.util.*,java.io.*,java.text.*,java.lang.reflect.*, com.plumtree.remote.portlet.*, com.plumtree.server.*, com.plumtree.openkernel.config.*, com.plumtree.openkernel.factory.*, com.plumtree.server.PortalObjectsFactory.*, com.plumtree.remote.prc.*, java.net.*" %>
<h5> Get Community, Portlet, and Page Name </h5>
<% IPTSession ptSession = null; IOKContext context = OKConfigFactory.createInstance("C:\\Program Files\\plumtree\\settings", "portal"); PortalObjectsFactory.Init(context);
// Connect to the portal server.. here we'll just be Administrator ptSession = PortalObjectsFactory.CreateSession(); ptSession.Connect("administrator", "", null); IPTObjectManager objMan = ptSession.GetCommunities(); //querying for user's communities, joeuser IPTQueryResult qresult = objMan.QuerySingleObject(201); int qnum = qresult.RowCount();
//querying for administrator's communities IPTQueryResult aresult = objMan.QuerySingleObject(1); int anum = aresult.RowCount();
%>
qnum is: <%=qnum%><br>anum is: <%=anum%>