Getting portal roles in web dynpro

Question

Hello
I'm sure this is a common problem but I've checked all the older posts and I just can't get it working.
We have a web dynpro app that runs within an EP iView (EP6SP14), and we need to retrieve the <i>portal</i> roles for the user.
With the APIs (using IRole and IUser and the getRoles() method) we only get the J2EE roles.  These are not the same.
Can anyone help?
Thanks
Chris

Answer 1

Hi
Thanks for the response.  Unfortunately, we have already tried a similar approach.  See our code below.  It sees to pull the WAS J2EE roles, but not the PCD roles.
public void getPortalUserDetails( )
            IWDMessageManager messageManager =
                  this.wdThis.wdGetAPI().getComponent().getMessageManager();
            PortalIntegrator portalIntegrator = null;
            new PortalIntegrator(this.wdThis.wdGetAPI());
            WDClientUser.forceLoggedInClientUser();
            if (WDPortalUtils.isRunningInPortal()) {
                  try {
                        IWDClientUser currentUser = WDClientUser.getCurrentUser();
                        IUser sapCurrentUser = currentUser.getSAPUser();
                        sapUser = sapCurrentUser;
                        String userId = currentUser.getClientUserID();
                        // Get the SAP Current User  
                        if (sapCurrentUser != null) {
                             portalUserId = sapCurrentUser.getUniqueName();
  public boolean isManager( )
            String roleName = null;
            boolean correct = false;
            try {
                  if (sapUser != null) {
                        Iterator rit = null;
                        rit = sapUser.getRoles(true);
                        IRoleFactory rfact = UMFactory.getRoleFactory();
                        while (rit.hasNext()) {
                             roleName = (String) rit.next();
                             IRole role = rfact.getRole(roleName);               
                        wdComponentAPI.getMessageManager().reportSuccess(
                             "rolename: " + roleName);
                        correct = sapUser.isMemberOfRole(roleName, true);
            } catch (Exception e) {
                  correct = false;
                  Logger.error(e.toString());
                  return correct;
//     return true;