Steps Involved in creating Users thru the API

Question

Hi Mark or anybody from Oracle,
Your solution to build a string for the
XML and then parse it is ok. However I would
like to do it programmatically instead of building strings containing the XML.
What are the steps and exactly what attributes do you need to set for the User
to be created programmatically.
Here is the steps I have and It's giving me
the following exception: IFS-30002 - Unable to create new library object.
The objects needed to create a user are:
1) DirectoryUserDef + set its attributes
2) Folder Definition for User folder then add
to parent folder in this case /home
3) PrimaryProfileUserDefinition + set its attributes DirectoryUser and HomeFolder ?
Can you elaborate on the exact steps to take
and exact attributes to set.
Thanks
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Answer 1

#1 I would strongly recommend the XML based approach. It's much easier, and if we change the way the user / directory objects are organized in much less likely to require you to alter your code.
Note that in order to create the objects programatically you're going to have to make sure that you have set ACLs and Owners correctly. It really is quite a complex process.
At some later date we 'may' provide a simple Java API for creating users.
In order to understand your error I need to catch the exception and print the stack trace as per the end of my code example for creating a user from an XML string.
Please post the results of the stack trace and someone will attempt to respond to you.