How can I fetch all the PCD roles from EP!

Question

Hello,
I need to fetch all the available pcd roles in EP. Right now I am trying to fetch pcd roles under Portal Content directory. I need a clarification whether this is the only place the pcd roles are available or is there any other location where rest of the pcd roles are available?
Thanks in advance,
Prashanth V Swamy

Answer 1

Hi Prasanth,
See the code below to retrieve all the pcd roles.
public List getPCDContents(IPortalComponentRequest request) throws Exception{
               try{
                    Hashtable env = new Hashtable();
                    env.put(IPcdContext.SECURITY_PRINCIPAL, request.getUser());
                    env.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY,IPcdContext.PCD_INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY);
                    env.put(com.sap.portal.directory.Constants.REQUESTED_ASPECT, PcmConstants.ASPECT_SEMANTICS);
                    InitialContext ctx = null;
                    DirContext dirCtx;
                    List roleList = null;
                    ctx = new InitialContext(env);
                    dirCtx = (DirContext) ctx.lookup("pcd:portal_content/");
                    PcdSearchControls pcdSearchControls = new PcdSearchControls();
                    pcdSearchControls.setReturningObjFlag(false);
                    pcdSearchControls.setSearchScope(
                         PcdSearchControls.SUBTREE_WITH_UNIT_ROOTS_SCOPE);
                    dirCtx.addToEnvironment(
                         Constants.APPLY_ASPECT_TO_CONTEXTS,
                         Constants.APPLY_ASPECT_TO_CONTEXTS);
                    NamingEnumeration ne =
                         dirCtx.search("","(com.sap.portal.pcd.gl.ObjectClass=com.sapportals.portal.role)",
                              pcdSearchControls);
                    iViewList = new ArrayList();
                    while (ne.hasMoreElements()) {
                         IPcdSearchResult searchResult =
                              (IPcdSearchResult) ne.nextElement();
                         String location = "pcd:portal_content/" + searchResult.getName();
                         //Get the full pcd path of the iview.
                         roleList.add(location);
                    return iViewList;
               }catch(Exception e ){
                    throw new Exception(e);
Hope it helps.
Regards,
Karthick