Get iViews from Role

Question

Hi
I want to find out on which page a specific iViews is used, that means, where in the (user specific) navigation the iView will be displayed.
When I traverse the navigation nodes, I get with getName() something like "ROLES://portal_content/folder/page". The problem is, I don't know which iViews lie on that page. How can I get them?
When I find a role (IPortalRole object) in the PCD, I don't know what to do with it - is has no method I can use to get access to its content. Is there any way to do so?
Thank you!
Tobias

Answer 1

Hi Tobias,
In your posts there seems 2 things you want to do:
(1) Find objects in a role.
The objects are just subcontexts within the role context, so you can do something like this:
Hashtable env = new Hashtable();
env.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY, Context.PCD_INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY);
env.put(Context.SECURITY_PRINCIPAL, request.getUser());
env.put(Constants.REQUESTED_ASPECT, IPcdAttribute.PERSISTENCY_ASPECT);
InitialContext   iCtx = null;
try {
iCtx = new InitialContext(env);
IPcdContext myPcdContext = (IPcdContext) iCtx.lookup("");
javax.naming.NamingEnumeration myEnum = myPcdContext.search("portal_content/DanielContent/DanRole",null);
This returns an enumeration of javax.naming.SearchResult objects, which are the worksets, pages and iViews in the role. You would have to continue to traverse the PCD tree -- that is, do a search of each of these objects to get all the pages and iViews inside these.
(2) Find all objects based on a specific portal component. You could do a similar thing by searching but with attribute filters, something like this:
javax.naming.directory.Attributes myAttrs = new javax.naming.directory.BasicAttributes();
myAttrs.put("com.sap.portal.private.iview.PropertiesUrl","pcd:com.sap.portal.system/applications/HelloWorldProject/components/HelloWorld");
myEnum = myPcdContext.search("portal_content",myAttrs);
The first problem with this is that it only searches the current level. There are other standard JNDI search methods that allow you to specify that you want to search all subnodes, but I have not been able to get it to work for PCD.
The second problem is that I cannot search on CodeLink (which is a PCM attribute) -- I can only search on PCD attributes. So I searched on com.sap.portal.private.iview.PropertiesUrl, but I am not sure this is reliable.
Daniel