[Building Sakai] Searching users created by external authority

[David Wafula]

Ok...turns out there was logical error in my code, can be able to search
user now.

On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 4:08 PM, David Wafula <davidwaf at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Steve Swinsburg <steve.swinsburg at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> External users don't show up in the Admin users tool because there isn't
>> really a way of showing them all since there could be thousands in the
>> external provider.
>>
>> Another point to note is that you don't actually have to make that UDS
>> call to have users from LDAP created in Sakai, their mapping will
>> automatically be set the first time their entry is accessed, either by
>> adding them to a site or by logging in.
>>
>> Also, if you do make that call, are you sure it is working? You can't
>> create a user that has the same eid as a provided account so I'd expect that
>> call to fail.
>>
>> Off topic, are you really using Tomcat 7? How is it going? What was the
>> build and setup like? Sakai has only really been tested on Tomcat 5.5.
>>
>> cheers,
>> Steve
>>
>>
>>
> Thanks for the info. Well, this is our own little custom LDAP-based
> provider (involves searching across multiple LDAP servers etc). I know there
> is jldap, but its not being flexible enough for our needs now. I can verify
> the user is for sure being created.
> I dont understand though what you exactly meant by "their mapping will
> automatically be set the first time their entry is accessed, either by
> adding them to a site or by logging in".  I mean, isn't
>
> userDirectoryService.addUser() enough ..or there is more to be done to make
> the user searchable ? As it stands login works fine, and even the profile is
> correctly populated with the minimal info provided from LDAP. Just i can't
> find the user on searching.
>
> I also have:
>
>
> public boolean getUser(UserEdit edit) {
>         System.out.println("Get User called " + edit);
>         if (edit == null) {
>             return false;
>         }
>
>         StaffLDAP staffLDAP = new StaffLDAP(staffLDAPHost, staffSearchBase,
> staffDN, ldapPassword);
>         LDAPUser user = staffLDAP.getLDAPUser(edit.getEid());
>
>         if (user == null) {
>             return false;
>         }
>         edit.setFirstName(user.getGivenname());
>         edit.setLastName(user.getSurname());
>         edit.setEmail(user.getEmail());
>         edit.setType("staff");
>
>         return true;
>
>     } // getUser
>
>
> As for tomcat 7...it runs fairly ok, except for these in logs:
>
> SEVERE: Parse error in application web.xml file at
> jndi:/localhost/imsblti/WEB-INF/web.xml
> java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Duplicate filter name [sakai.request]
> ...
> java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.sakaiproject.dav.DavRealm
> ...
>
> java.lang.NoSuchMethodException: org.apache.catalina.deploy.WebXml
> addFilter
>
> Am just using this tomcat 7 for the fun of it, but in prod we will probably
> use 5.5.
> --
> David Wafula
>



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