Retrieve CodeLink of PCD iView

Question

I have written a JSPDynPage application to list all IViews in the PCD.  For each iView in the list, I want to display several attributes.  I am successfully retrieving "last changed by" as well as "quicklink", but I have not been able to retrieve "CodeLink".  The call for CodeLink returns a nullPointer.   See code below.  Any thoughts on how to successfully retrieve the "CodeLink" attribute?  Thanks in advance!
try {
    this.setLastChangedBy(
    sr.getAttributes().get("com.sap.portal.pcd.gl.LastChangedBy").get().toString());
} catch (Exception e) {
   this.setLastChangedBy("");
try {
    this.setQuicklink(
    sr.getAttributes().get("com.sap.portal.navigation.QuickLink").get().toString());
} catch (Exception e) {
    this.setQuicklink("");
try {
    this.setCodeLink(
    sr.getAttributes().get("CodeLink").get().toString());
} catch (Exception e) {
    this.setCodeLink(e.toString());

Answer 1

I also ran into this issue in the past, not being able to retrieve the 'CodeLink' attribute during the lookup process and I could not find any workaround for this issue. I was looking for all appintegrator iViews so I was checking for all iViews with 'System' attribute (refer to java code):
private List getiViewsList(String searchRoot, IUser user) {
          List list = new ArrayList();
          try {
               String searchString = "(&" + SEARCH_STRING + ")";
               Hashtable env = new Hashtable();
               env.put(Constants.REQUESTED_ASPECT,IPcdAttribute.PERSISTENCY_ASPECT);
               env.put(IPcdContext.SECURITY_PRINCIPAL, user);
               env.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY,IPcdContext.PCD_INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY);
               InitialContext iCtx = new InitialContext(env);
               IPcdContext searchRootCtx = (IPcdContext) iCtx.lookup(searchRoot);
               PcdSearchControls ctls = new PcdSearchControls();
               //ctls.setSearchScope(PcdSearchControls.UNIT_ROOTS_ONLY_SCOPE);
               ctls.setSearchScope(PcdSearchControls.SUBTREE_SCOPE);
               ctls.setReturningObjFlag(true);
               NamingEnumeration enum1 =searchRootCtx.search("", searchString, ctls);
               while (enum1.hasMore()) {
                    SearchResult result = (SearchResult) enum1.next();
                    IPcdContext pcdCtx = (IPcdContext) result.getObject();
                    String alias =pcdCtx.getAttributes("").get(ATTR_ID_SYSTEM).get().toString();
                    //String codelink = pcdCtx.getAttributes("").get(ATTR_ID_CODELINK).get().toString();
                    list.add(new IViewInfo(pcdCtx.getNameInNamespace(), alias));
          } catch (NamingException e) {
               return null;
          return list;
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Edited by: Ehud Felus on May 16, 2010 2:57 PM