OIM 11g Entity Adapters

Question

Hi all,
I have developed an Entity Adapter using Oracle Identity Manager Design Console which generates different account user ids against a user defined field on Process Form.
Here I'll provide more details about my scenario.
SCENARIO*
a. OIM version: 11.1.1.5.0
b. Process Form fields (Siebel Process Form):
- User ID
- First Name
- Last Name
.... [any other out of the box Siebel Connector field]
- Anonymous Flag (this is a user defined field on Siebel Process Form)
c. Entity Adapter
- this adapter has an input variable which is Process Form user defined field "+Anonymous Flag+"
- if "+Anonymous Flag+" is checked (true) then the adapter sets the return value to "*Anonymous*"
- else if "+Anonymous Flag+" is uncheked (false) then the adapter sets the return value to "*NOT Anonymous*"
- the adapter return variable is mapped to Process Form "+User ID+"
- NOTE: the adapter return values are only for testing pourpose. In the future, the adapter should return two different syntax for User ID.
For example in case of Anonymous Flag checked, account User ID should be +<surname>+ + "+_+" + +<name>+ + +<random_number>+; while in case of Anonymous Flag unchecked, account User ID should be <+company_name+> + <+random_number+>
d. Access Policies
- an access policy "+AP_for_Anonymous+" linked with a role "+ROLE_for_Anonymous+" that sets "+Anonymous Flag+" to checked (true)
- an access policy "+AP_for_NOT_Anonymous+" linked with a role "+ROLE_for_NON_Anonymous+" that sets "+Anonymous Flag+" to unchecked (false)
RESULTS*
Assigning one of roles "+ROLE_for_Anonymous+" or "+ROLE_for_NON_Anonymous+", on Process Form, user defined field "+Anonymous Flag+" is valorized correctly, but Entity Adapter doesn't seems to work. In fact Process Form User ID remains empty.
QUESTIONS*
1. Are Entity Adapters associated with accounts supported in OIM 11g? I found a couple of posts that assert that Entity Adapters don't exist in OIM 11g (Event handlers are not getting invoked in oim 11g. or that state Entity Adapters are not supported with the User Form (Issue in adapters mapping in OIM 11g About this I found Entity Adapter Oracle documentation (http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E21764_01/doc.1111/e14309/creadp.htm#BABDHECI)
2. If Entity Adapters are not applicabile to my scenario, can I use Event Handlers? If yes, what are the entity types that I can specify in event handler metadata xml file? For "event handler metadata xml file" I mean the following
<action-handler class="com.test.sample" entity-type=????? operation="CREATE" name="Sample" stage="postprocess" order="1007" sync="TRUE"/>3. If Entity Adapters are not applicabile to my scenario, what are the operations that I can specify in event handler metadata xml file?
Thank for your help,
Daniele

Answer 1

Entity Adapter still exist in 11g. Yes, you can use Event Handler .
But why don't you use Process task/prepopulate adapter for your scenario. Try below
1. You have some condition on which role is assigned. Based on same condition populate this Anonymous/ Not Anonymous(true/false) at user profile.
2. write a pre-populate adapter to generate User ID. pass parameters Anonymous flag along with other user profile attribute(first name, last name..etc.) . Here based on flag you will be able to decide User ID.
3. attach this pre-populate with process form.
4. already you have two access policy which is fine. just edit both and remove the Anonymous flag value else can leave it as it is.
Note: for populating Anonymous flag on user profile create a new UDF and try to populate in trusted recon.else write post process event handler for same which will execute before access policy. I mean the order of evethandler should be between 1003 to 1008
If you have doubt let me know
--nayan