[Building Sakai] Import available users from a file to Sakai

[Steve Swinsburg]

Hi Phuc,

put any additional dependencies in your pom so that Maven can find it  
when building and add it to the war if necessary. Note that this will  
automatically install it to your repo so you can skip the  install- 
file step.

Turn this:
> mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=jexcelapi -DartifactId=jxl - 
> Dversion=2.6.9 -Dpackaging=jar -Dfile=jxl.jar
>

into a dependency block in your pom.

As for the UserDirectoryService, you need to inject the service to get  
it to work. At the moment you are using the static cover which is why  
its working. See here:
http://bugs.sakaiproject.org/confluence/display/BOOT/Using+the+UserDirectoryService


cheers,
Steve

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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 14/05/2009, at 7:25 AM, Phuc Bui wrote:

> Dear Steve and all,
> With user in LDAP, I can map it successfully.
> But my problem is that the input of my tool is the output file of  
> another application. When students enter the university, they will  
> update their information by that application. Now if I need the data  
> of the students, I have to read the output file of that app.
> I have followed your instruction to use UserDirectoryService but I  
> cannot call the method addUser(…) from class  
> org.sakaiproject.user.api.UserDirectoryService, so I use this class  
> org.sakaiproject.user.cover.UserDirectoryService instead. And it  
> worked.
>
> But I have another problem. I use library jxl.jar (http://jexcelapi.sourceforge.net/ 
> ) to read data from excel file. I have added it to project build path.
> But when I install my project, it cannot compile.
> ………………………………………………….
> Downloading: http://source.sakaiproject.org/maven2-ibiblio/jta/jta/h2.1.8/jta-h2
> .1.8.pom
> Downloading: http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/jta/jta/h2.1.8/jta-h2.1.8.pom
> Downloading: http://myfaces.zones.apache.org/dist/maven-repository/jta/jta/h2.1 
> .
> 8/jta-h2.1.8.pom
> Downloading: http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/jta/jta/h2.1.8/jta-h2.1.8.pom
> [INFO] [compiler:compile]
> [INFO] Compiling 6 source files to F:\workspaces\thesis_workspaces 
> \import-user\i
> mpl\m2-target\classes
> [INFO]  
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [ERROR] BUILD FAILURE
> [INFO]  
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [INFO] Compilation failure
>
> F:\workspaces\thesis_workspaces\import-user\impl\src\java\org 
> \sakaiproject\impor
> tuser\logic\ImportUserLogicImpl.java:[19,11] package jxl does not  
> exist
>
> F:\workspaces\thesis_workspaces\import-user\impl\src\java\org 
> \sakaiproject\impor
> tuser\logic\ImportUserLogicImpl.java:[20,11] package jxl does not  
> exist
>
> ……………………………………………………
> So I would like to ask you how to use external library in Sakai  
> project J
> I have tried this command to install jar file to maven lib, it tells  
> BUILD SUCCESSFULLY.
> mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=jexcelapi -DartifactId=jxl - 
> Dversion=2.6.9 -Dpackaging=jar -Dfile=jxl.jar
>
> Thanks,
> Phuc Bui
>
> From: Steve Swinsburg [mailto:s.swinsburg at lancaster.ac.uk]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 11:01 PM
> To: Phuc Bui
> Cc: sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
> Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] Import available users from a file to  
> Sakai
>
> Hi Phuc,
>
> It's the UserDirectoryService for creating user accounts. This would  
> be a good enhancement to the existing Admin User's tool, to be able  
> to create accounts in bulk. Would be good to extend that if possible.
>
> Here's the Javadocs for 2.5.4:
> http://source.sakaiproject.org/release/2.5.4/apidocs/
>
> Find UserDirectoryService (the org.sakaiproject.user.api one) in the  
> list and check out it's methods. You want the addUser() method. Note  
> that the first parameter, the id, can be null and it will be  
> autogenerated, which is generally what you want so you get the UUID.
>
> Either that or have your users in LDAP, hook it up to Sakai and you  
> don't need to do anything, their accounts will be mapped  
> automatically when they first login.
>
>
> 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 13 May 2009, at 16:51, Phuc Bui wrote:
>
>
> Dear Steve,
> I would like to develop a tool in Sakai so that users can have a  
> view to create users.
> My problem is that: every year, when students enter university, I  
> will have the data of them, then I will make these students as  
> Sakai’s users.
> So would you tell me which API to do this J
> Thanks,
> Phuc Bui
>
> From: Steve Swinsburg [mailto:s.swinsburg at lancaster.ac.uk]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 7:10 PM
> To: Phuc Bui
> Cc: sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
> Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] Import available users from a file to  
> Sakai
>
> Hi Phuc,
>
> Best to use the API. You can use the web services to iterate over a  
> file and create user accounts.
>
> I've attached a (crude) Perl script and a sample CSV file.
>
>

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