Problem updating metadata attribute of type "user".

Question

Hi folks,
I am testing updating category metadata attributs and thusfar the only attribute type that gives me trouble
is an attribute of type 'user', which really is an Item-type in Content DB.
It consistently comes up with following error:
Exception in thread "main" AxisFault
faultCode: {http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/}Server.userException
faultSubcode:
faultString: org.xml.sax.SAXException: No object was found for class type class oracle.ifs.fdk.FdkSession
faultActor:
faultNode:
faultDetail:
    {http://xml.apache.org/axis/}hostname:xxxxxxx
org.xml.sax.SAXException: No object was found for class type class oracle.ifs.fdk.FdkSession
    at org.apache.axis.message.SOAPFaultBuilder.createFault(SOAPFaultBuilder.java:221)
    at org.apache.axis.message.SOAPFaultBuilder.endElement(SOAPFaultBuilder.java:128)
    at org.apache.axis.encoding.DeserializationContext.endElement(DeserializationContext.java:1087)
    at oracle.xml.parser.v2.NonValidatingParser.parseElement(NonValidatingParser.java:1306)
    at oracle.xml.parser.v2.NonValidatingParser.parseRootElement(NonValidatingParser.java:324)
    at oracle.xml.parser.v2.NonValidatingParser.parseDocument(NonValidatingParser.java:291)
    at oracle.xml.parser.v2.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:207)
    at oracle.xml.jaxp.JXSAXParser.parse(JXSAXParser.java:292)
    at org.apache.axis.encoding.DeserializationContext.parse(DeserializationContext.java:227)
    at org.apache.axis.SOAPPart.getAsSOAPEnvelope(SOAPPart.java:696)
    at org.apache.axis.Message.getSOAPEnvelope(Message.java:424)
    at org.apache.axis.handlers.soap.MustUnderstandChecker.invoke(MustUnderstandChecker.java:62)
    at org.apache.axis.client.AxisClient.invoke(AxisClient.java:206)
    at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invokeEngine(Call.java:2765)
    at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2748)
    at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2424)
    at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2347)
    at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:1804)
    at oracle.ifs.fdk.FileManagerSoapBindingStub.updateDocuments(FileManagerSoapBindingStub.java:1606)
    at oracle.ifs.fdk.client.impl.FileManagerProxy.updateDocuments(FileManagerProxy.java:688)
    at oracle.ifs.fdk.client.impl.FileManagerProxy.updateDocument(FileManagerProxy.java:548)
    at updatetest.updatetest.UpdateNow(updatetest.java:182)
    at updatetest.updatetest.main(updatetest.java:237)Here's what I roughly do in my code:
    <snip snip>
    UserManager Uman = session.getUserManager();
    FileManager Fman = session.getFileManager();
    long docId  = Fman.resolvePath("Some/path/to/some/doc/that/exists",null).getId();
    NamedValue[] catdef = new NamedValue[] {
        new NamedValue(Options.UPDATE_CATEGORY_ID, 51655),
        new NamedValue(Options.CATEGORY_DEFINITION_ATTRIBUTES,
            new NamedValue[] {
                new NamedValue("CUSTOM_51550",Uman.getUser("pro347",null))
    Fman.updateDocument(docId,catdef,null);User pro347 exists.
System.out.println(Uman.getUser("pro347",null).getName());returns "pro347"
The document exists and has category instance id 51655 assigned to it.
Does anyone see what I am not seeing ?
Any help would be very much appreciated.
Regards,
Ragnar

Answer 1

Hi Ragnar,
I am facing similar issue. I am creating document definition
i.e
OPT.CATEGORY_DEFINITION (NamedValue[])=
OPT.UPDATE_CATEGORY_ID=67317 (Long)
OPT.CATEGORY_DEFINITION_ATTRIBUTES (NamedValue[])=
CUSTOM_64434=1 (String)
CUSTOM_64432 (Item)=
(Item) 49194 USER bart.simpson
CUSTOM_64430= (String)
CUSTOM_64429=1.6 (String)
CUSTOM_64426=String (String)
CUSTOM_64435=2 (String)
CUSTOM_64431=Wed Mar 21 00:00:00 GMT 2007 (Calendar)
CUSTOM_64427=13 (String)
CUSTOM_64433=str1 (String)
CUSTOM_64428=5 (String)
and performing update.Fields of all other types are updated correctly except for user type field which gets updated with empty value. No error is thrown during update.
I would appreciate any help on this one as well,
Thanks
Radek