Searching for permissions of a user

Question

Hi,
I'm trying to find the permissions of a user on a particular resource.
I did something similar for groups:
IGroup sapGroup = UMFactory.getGroupFactory().getGroupByUniqueName(groupName);
IUMPrincipal group = WPUMFactory.getGroupFactory().getEP5Group(sapGroup);
IResourceAclEntryList irAclEntryList = rAcl.getEntries(group);
And this works but when I use a user as the argument for getEntries(), the result is empty and I'm sure the user has a permission on this resource.
If this would work, would it take into account the groups the user belongs to ?
Help would be much appreciated.
PS: Or is there a way to this without using deprecated classes ?

Answer 1

Hi,
You can try something like this:
private boolean userFound(IUMPrincipal aclPrincipal, IUser currentUser) {
     if ((aclPrincipal == null) && (currentUser == null)) {
              return false;
     if (IUMPrincipal.IUSER == aclPrincipal.getType()) {
         return currentUser.equals(aclPrincipal);
     } else if (IUMPrincipal.IGROUP == aclPrincipal.getType()) {
               String groupID = aclPrincipal.getId();
               return currentUser.isInGroup(groupID);
        } else if (IUMPrincipal.IROLE == aclPrincipal.getType()) {
           String roleID = aclPrincipal.getId();
           return currentUser.isInRole(roleID);
       return false;
and then:
IResourceAclEntryList irAclEntryList = rAcl.getEntries();
IResourceAclEntryListIterator rli = irAclEntryList.iterator();
while (rli.hasNext()) {
     IResourceAclEntry rae = rli.next();               
     IUMPrincipal aclPrincipal = rae.getPrincipal();
     if (userFound(aclPrincipal, user))
          return rae.getPermission();
return null;
Best Regards,
Avishai Zamir