[Building Sakai] Use Sakai API to add members to site

[Phuc Bui]

Hi all,
We can see the difference between eid and uid here:
This is a user from external database, he has eid and uid like this
--------
User has EID :nlu05130030 and UserID : 400d093e-6ba4-44e0-8738-1468c968d627
--------
And following user is internal user
--------
hunglephi has EID : hunglephi has UserID :
439d9eed-dd08-4a25-b04c-ddd50509344d
--------
Look the same !!!

And code to add member to site are:
addedSite.addMember(EID, role, true, false); -> that also works for internal
user
addedSite.addMember(UID, role, true, false); -> that works for all
addedSite.addMember(UID, role, true, true); -> that does NOT work for
external user (no effect) -> although API says last parameter (means
provided): If true, from an external provider ???

In short,
To get UID from EID use this method: String UID =
UserDirectoryService.getUserByEid(eid).getId();
Then add member to site by: site.addMember(UID, role, true, false);

Thanks for all,
Phuc Bui

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Swinsburg [mailto:s.swinsburg at lancaster.ac.uk] 
Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 4:56 PM
To: Thomas Amsler
Cc: Phuc Bui; Sakai Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] Use Sakai API to add members to site

Ok so "the EID is the one you login with" is the better explanation  
then.

Enterprise ID is a foreign concept for pretty much everyone outside  
the US so that term itself can be confusing. At least in universities  
where I have performed integrations the student/staff number is the  
only thing that can consistently identify someone, and that is never  
used publicly. That would be considered the Enterprise ID in those  
cases.

cheers,
Steve

On 15 Jul 2009, at 21:14, Thomas Amsler wrote:

> W.R.T. "The eid is the human readable one": This is not always the
> case and may be a bit misleading in as much as that folks may
> associate the EID with the DisplayID. The EID should be the
> institution's enterprise ID, which may or may not be human readable.
> Since folks tend to assume that the EID is human readable, they tend
> to use it as the displayId. This "misconception" in sakai2 has hurt us
> quite a bit and required us to locally modify/fix sakai2.
>
> Best,
> -- Thomas
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 6:53 AM, Steve
> Swinsburg<s.swinsburg at lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:
>> Hi Phuc,
>> You need to use the userId, not the eid. The eid is the human  
>> readable one,
>> ie jsmith26, the userId is the internal one. To get it, just do this:
>> String userid = UserDirectoryService.getUserByEid(eid).getId();
>>
>> cheers,
>> Steve
>> ---
>> Steve Swinsburg
>> Portal Systems Developer
>> Centre for e-Science
>> Lancaster University
>> Lancaster
>> LA1 4YT
>> email: s.swinsburg at lancaster.ac.uk
>> phone: +44 (0) 1524 594870
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 15 Jul 2009, at 14:47, Phuc Bui wrote:
>>
>> Dear all,
>> I use this API org.sakaiproject.site.api.Site to add members to site
>> -------------------------------------------
>> addMember
>> void addMember(String userId,
>>                String roleId,
>>                boolean active,
>>                boolean provided)
>> Add a member to the AuthzGroup.
>> Parameters:
>> userId - The user.
>> role - The role name.
>> active - The active flag.
>> provided - If true, from an external provider.
>> -----------------------------------------
>>
>> But when I used it, I got following warning, though I called
>> site.addMember(uid, roleId, true, true)
>> ------------------------------------
>> WARN: refreshAuthzGroup: cannot find eid for user: nluthuyntt  
>> (2009-07-15
>> 20:25:
>> 46,064
>> http-8080- 
>> Processor23_org.sakaiproject.authz.impl.DbAuthzGroupService)
>> WARN: refreshAuthzGroup: cannot find eid for user: nlu05130095  
>> (2009-07-15
>> 20:25
>> :46,065
>> http-8080- 
>> Processor23_org.sakaiproject.authz.impl.DbAuthzGroupService)
>> WARN: refreshAuthzGroup: cannot find eid for user: nlu05130030  
>> (2009-07-15
>> 20:25
>> :46,066
>> http-8080- 
>> Processor23_org.sakaiproject.authz.impl.DbAuthzGroupService)
>> WARN: refreshAuthzGroup: cannot find eid for user: nlu05130148  
>> (2009-07-15
>> 20:25
>> :46,068
>> http-8080- 
>> Processor23_org.sakaiproject.authz.impl.DbAuthzGroupService)
>> WARN: refreshAuthzGroup: cannot find eid for user: nlu05130072  
>> (2009-07-15
>> 20:25
>> :46,069
>> http-8080- 
>> Processor23_org.sakaiproject.authz.impl.DbAuthzGroupService)
>> -----------------------------------
>> I have implemented UserDirectoryProvider to read user's data from  
>> external
>> database and I can log in by those id (such as nluthuyntt,  
>> nlu05130095 .)
>>
>> What should I do more ?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Phuc Bui
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