[Building Sakai] User properties missing

[Mark Norton]

User properties are used.  Since your properties are being saved 
sometimes, the basic mechanism is working.  Some debugging is likely 
needed.  Do you have a case that causes this problem to happen 
consistently?  At the very least, you might want to create a Jira entry 
for this problem.

- Mark Norton

Joshua Swink wrote:
> Just wanted to mention that this is a HUGE issue for us... when grades
> are submitted, we need to grab a specific ID for each student that
> maps them into our Banner database. So when this error happens, an
> instructor is trying to submit grades and it fails. This causes a lot
> of angst across several departments...
>
> It seems that in a vanilla Sakai installation, user properties are not
> used much or at all? So we may be treading in virgin territory by
> using them. I noticed that the user directory service does some
> internal caching of users, which could be interfering with property
> retrieval. Somehow.
>
> Josh
>
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 6:46 PM, Joshua Swink <joshua.swink at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> I have some code that's processing users in Sakai, and at one point
>> it's looking for some property or another:
>>
>> user = getUserDirectoryService().getUserByEid(studentEid);
>> [...]
>> String propVal = user.getProperties().getProperty(propertyName)
>>
>> The result is null. The problem is that I know this property exists -
>> I can look in the database and there it is in SAKAI_USER_PROPERTY. It
>> has been there for several weeks, and Sakai has been restarted since
>> then. For 99.9% of the students processed this way, all properties are
>> found. But there are a few where this property (and some others) are
>> missing. They tend to reappear after a while.
>>
>> Any idea what's causing this? I am using Sakai 2.6.1 with Oracle.
>>
>> Josh
>>
>>     
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