Creating self registration request using OIM API

Question

Hi guys,
When we try to create a self regisrtation request using OIM API , we ge the following exception:
We get this error when we set the following in Design console.
Does user have to provide challenge information during registration = FALSE
and passed an blank object in place of challenge question parameter in createSelfRegistrationRequest method in tcUtilityBaseClass.
19:22:17,218 ERROR [REQUESTS] Error: Failed to save REQ_CONSOLIDATED_DATA_VALUE
data for Create Entity.
java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.apache.xml.serializer.TreeWalker.dispatachChars(TreeWalker.java:2
44)
at org.apache.xml.serializer.TreeWalker.startNode(TreeWalker.java:414)
at org.apache.xml.serializer.TreeWalker.traverse(TreeWalker.java:143)
at org.apache.xalan.transformer.TransformerIdentityImpl.transform(Transf
ormerIdentityImpl.java:389)
at com.thortech.xl.dataobj.util.RequestDataConsolidator.convertNodeToXML
(Unknown Source)
at com.thortech.xl.dataobj.util.RequestDataConsolidator.addUser(Unknown
Source)
at com.thortech.xl.dataobj.tcDataBase.createRequestForCreateEntity(Unkno
wn Source)
at com.thortech.xl.dataobj.tcDataBase.createRegistrationRequest(Unknown
Source)
at com.thortech.xl.dataobj.tcDataBase.createRegistrationRequest(Unknown
Source)
at com.thortech.xl.ejb.beansimpl.tcUnauthenticatedOperationsBean.createR
egistrationRequest(Unknown Source)
at com.thortech.xl.ejb.beans.tcUnauthenticatedOperationsSession.createRe
gistrationRequest(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.
java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAcces
sorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at org.jboss.invocation.Invocation.performCall(Invocation.java:359)
at org.jboss.ejb.StatelessSessionContainer$ContainerInterceptor.invoke(S
tatelessSessionContainer.java:237)
at org.jboss.resource.connectionmanager.CachedConnectionInterceptor.invo
ke(CachedConnectionInterceptor.java:158)
at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.StatelessSessionInstanceInterceptor.invoke(Stat
elessSessionInstanceInterceptor.java:169)
at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.CallValidationInterceptor.invoke(CallValidation
Interceptor.java:63)
at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.AbstractTxInterceptor.invokeNext(AbstractTxInte
rceptor.java:121)
How do we create a self registration request , using OIM API , with and without challenge questions?

Answer 1

Well try this piece of code. This might be similar to yours but it worked perfectly for me. For you the error might be the attribute names which you are passing, it should be the one dfined in the FormMetaData xml as below.
     import Thor.API.tcUtilityFactory;
     // define you class below
     ConfigurationClient.ComplexSetting config = ConfigurationClient.getComplexSettingByPath("Discovery.CoreServer");
     final Hashtable env = config.getAllSettings();
     Hashtable quesAns = new Hashtable();
     HashMap user = new HashMap();
     user.put("Users.User ID", "SelfTesting");
     user.put("Users.First Name", "SelfTesting");
     user.put("Users.Last Name", "SelfTesting");
     user.put("Users.Email", "[email protected]");
     user.put("Users.Password", "SelfTesting");
     user.put("ConfirmPassword", "SelfTesting");
     tcUtilityFactory.createRegistrationRequest(env, user, quesAns);
And for the query of challenge QnA, these are the following combinations possible:
1) Property Does user have to provide challenge information during registration set to TRUE
- During self-registration from web console, it will show you Challenge Questions section on the right. If you do not select any questions, it will thow you an error there itself.
- Doing it from API will create no difference(even if you pass a blank HashTable). The request will be created successfully and on completion when the user tries to login, it will ask for Security QnA.
2) Property Does user have to provide challenge information during registration set to FALSE
- During self-registration from web console, it doesn't show you Challenge Questions section on the right. The request will be created successfully and on completion when the user tries to login, it will ask for Security QnA.
- Doing it from API, you will have to pass a blank HashTable as in above code. The request will be created successfully and on completion when the user tries to login, it will ask for Security QnA.
Hope it works.
Thanks
Sunny