Portal User's Personal Details

Question

Hello,
Im trying to get logged on user's Personal Details, and
show them in my portlet.
Im using PDK July on Portal Release 9.0.2.3.0 running on Linux.
I used ProviderUser object's methods in order to get Personal Details.
Using API calls i can get only
portal username, userqualifiedname and usertostring values.
All the other methods return null.
Any suggestions for this problem
Regards.
I use following code in my jsp page.
import="oracle.portal.provider.v2.*"
PortletRenderRequest pReq = (PortletRenderRequest)
request.getAttribute(HttpCommonConstants.PORTLET_RENDER_REQUEST);
// These methods return null
String userFullName = pReq.getUser().getFullName();
String userDisplayName = pReq.getUser().getDisplayName();
String userLastName = pReq.getUser().getLastName();
String userFirstName = pReq.getUser().getFirstName();
String userDN = pReq.getUser().getUserDN();
String userEmail = m_ProviderUser.getEmail();
//These methods work fine
String userName = pReq.getUser().getName();
String userToString = m_ProviderUser.toString();
String userQualifiedName = pReq.getUser().getQualifiedName();

Answer 1

Hi,
I think that the user details are read from the OID by Portal. So if they do not exist on the OID, obviously Portal doesn't have them & so you are getting null values for the other attributes. Username being a mandatory parameter, you could retrieve its value. So just cross check if user profiles have been added & all details that you want are available for the logged in user.
You could use the seeded portlets in the "Admistrator" tab to view the user profiles.
Regards,
Abhinav