How can I extract information from an IdM approval stack?

Question

During the workflow for provisioning employees, managers are required to authorize certain actions. The problem is that they sometimes do not.
My boss has asked for a formatted report in ascending date order that shows the passive authorizations (some are weeks old!) and the managers to whom the "lazy" managers report.
I've done this, but it's driven by my manually screen-scraping the information from the approval list onto an external file.
The problem is that I have to initiate the process by bringing up the approval screen, copying and pasting information into a file and then running a Perl munge script against the created file...
I want to be able to acccess the approvals list by means of a crontab initiated script and not have to rely on the "screen-scrape."
Any ideas?
Ian Clark
ADP - ProBusiness.
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Namalankula

Answer 1

You can do it in following way....
First you need to create the object of URL by specifying the URL name.
URL myurl = new URL("http://www.xyz.com/index.html"); //specify your URL path here
URLConnection conn = null;
DataInputStream data = null;
String line;
StringBuffer buf = new StringBuffer();
try {
conn = myurl.openConnection();
conn.connect();
data = new DataInputStream(new BufferedInputStream(
conn.getInputStream()));
while ((line = data.readLine()) != null) {
buf.append(line + "\n");
data.close();
catch (IOException e) {
System.out.println("IO Error:" + e.getMessage());
So, at the end, you have the data in your string buffer...you can use it wherever u want.
Hope this helps