Reading custom OID Attributes

Question

We have a dev and a test portal server, and we have been successfully using the following code to read custom OID atributes. ie We have created our own LDAP schema/class with some of our own attributes. Then doing the following:
     PortletRenderRequest pReq = (PortletRenderRequest)request.getAttribute(HttpCommonConstants.PORTLET_RENDER_REQUEST);
     String flag = pReq.getUser().getPropertyValue("myflag");
This is working quite fine in our dev server, but does not work in our test server. The "flag" variable comes out as null in the test environment.
As far as I can tell everything is configured and setup exactly the same. As this is someone else's code that I am maintaining I am not quite sure where to start looking. Can someone point me in the right direction on where to look to work out how this "getPropertyValue" is supposed to work?

Answer 1

Hello Amarys,
- In order to add Custom Attributes to Portal Database (default Java), you dont have to do attribute mapping in the XML. It is applicable for LDAP scenarios only.
- You need to define Administrator / Self Managed Custom Attributes based on who views / modifies [UME Custom Attributes|http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70ehp2/helpdata/en/44/0316d50bbe025ce10000000a1553f7/frameset.htm]
- You can use the UME API to read the custom attribute value set during the registration process  -
static final String CUSTOMER_NAMESPACE = "com.customer.usermanagement";
IUser user = . . .;
String org[] = user.getAttribute(CUSTOMER_NAMESPACE,"hr_org");
if (org != null) {
for (int i=0; i< org.length(); i++) {
response.write("Org: " + i + " = " + org<i>);
} else {
response.write("No orgs found for this user.");
-  Extremely good reference (make sure you dont use any depricated API) -
[UME API|http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/3641e490-0201-0010-c68f-e51221925714?QuickLink=events&overridelayout=true]
Hope this helps ! ~ Dhanz