Reorder weblogic authentication providers

Question

I have a properties file containing a list of weblogic authentication providers in a certain order.
example properties file :
    ### realm components ###
    AuthenticationProvider=DefaultAuthenticator,DefaultIdentityAsserter,IPlanetAuthenticator,WaliSAMLAuthenticator,UmoeAuthenticator,MooseAuthenticator
and a wlst jython script who uses this properties file as an argument to create and reorders the authentication providers in the security realm.
wlst code to create AuthenticationProviders :
     #                                      realm config                                    #
     for a in AuthenticationProvider:
         print 'Config AuthenticationProvider ' + a
         if a == "IDMx509IdentityAsserter":
             print 'Creating AuthenticationProvider IDMx509IdentityAsserter'
             createIDMx509IdentityAsserter()
         elif a == "SAMLIdentityAsserterV2":
             print 'Creating AuthenticationProvider SAMLIdentityAsserterV2'
             createSAMLIdentityAsserterV2()
         elif a == "IDMSamlAuthenticationProvider":
             print 'Creating AuthenticationProvider IDMSamlAuthenticationProvider'
             createIDMSamlAuthenticationProvider()
         elif a == "WaliSAMLAuthenticator":
             print 'Creating AuthenticationProvider WaliSAMLAuthenticator'
             createWaliSAMLAuthenticator()
         elif a == "UAMPepRoleMapper":
             print 'Creating AuthenticationProvider UAMPepRoleMapper'
             providerUrl = prop.get(a + '.ProviderUrl')
             createUAMPepRoleMapper(providerUrl)
         else:
             print '!Problem creating AuthenticationProvider , don\'t know how to create ' + a
    setOrderAuthenticationProvider(AuthenticationProvider,domainName)
the methode to set the order:
    def setOrderAuthenticationProvider(listAuthenticationProvider,domainname):
        try:     
            cd('/SecurityConfiguration/' + domainname + '/DefaultRealm/myrealm/')
            arrayAuthenticationProviders = get('AuthenticationProviders')
            lengt = len(arrayAuthenticationProviders)+1
            for x in xrange(1,lengt):
                arrayAuthenticationProviders.pop(len(arrayAuthenticationProviders)-1)
        except:
           print '!Problem while trying to cleanup arrayAuthenticationProviders'
        try:
            for a in listAuthenticationProvider:
                print 'add ' + a + ' to authenticatorArray'
                cd('/SecurityConfiguration/' + domainname + '/DefaultRealm/myrealm/AuthenticationProviders/' + a )
                currentAuthenticator = cmo
                arrayAuthenticationProviders.append(currentAuthenticator)
        except:
            print '!Problem while trying to construct list of autehticators'
            dumpStackRollback()
        try:
            cd('/SecurityConfiguration/' + domainname + '/Realms/myrealm')
            set('AuthenticationProviders',arrayAuthenticationProviders)
        except:
            print '!Problem while setting order AuthenticatoionProviders'
            dumpStackRollback()
The problem is when I call the methode i get an exception saying arrayAuthenticatorionProvider has not the correct type.
a correct example to set the order correct is this:
    set('AuthenticationProviders',jarray.array([ObjectName('Security:Name=myrealmDefaultIdentityAsserter'), ObjectName('Security:Name=myrealmDefaultAuthenticator'), ObjectName('Security:Name=myrealmMooseAuthenticator'), ObjectName('Security:Name=myrealmIDMx509IdentityAsserter'), ObjectName('Security:Name=myrealmSAMLIdentityAsserterV2'), ObjectName('Security:Name=myrealmIDMSamlAuthenticationProvider'), ObjectName('Security:Name=myrealmWaliSAMLAuthenticator'), ObjectName('Security:Name=myrealmUmoeAuthenticator'), ObjectName('Security:Name=myrealmIPlanetAuthenticator')], ObjectName))
Can somme one tell me how i can adopt my code to create a correct jarray with ObjectName type objects.

Answer 1

Hi Nishith,
Thanks very much for your informaiton.
The link provided by you tells the policy migraiton from file system(System-jazn) to LDAP(OID or OVD) in Domain Policy store.
What we need is "Upon installing a new patch update to the Domain, the weblogic Authenctication providers getting deleted. Perticularly the one which we configured for External authentication(OVD Authenticator).
In our User interface we have one functionality for creating a External authenticaiotn provider(External authentication). it will create the Authentication provider in Weblogic as well as OVD. when we are updating our application with patch in the domain, the weblogic provider getting deleted.
As of now we are creating that Authentication provider manully in Weblogic. My quesiton is, is there any script(wlst) or workaroud to persist or recreate the provider?
I Hope you understand my problem.
Thank you