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PersonDirectory as API

The basic class for a uPotal user is an implementation of the IPerson object. The uPortal Person Directory Service is provided by the used to populate and retrieve user attributes.  Person Directory is maintained as a separate source project PersonDirectory.  uPortal 3.2 provides the single class, PersonDirectory, to obtain an instance of IPersonAttributeDao.   IPersonAttributeDao is configured by Spring to acquire attributes for a personThis class is currently deprecated and will no longer be needed in a future version of uPortal that is entirely Spring configured.  Attributes can be acquired from multiple sources via LDAP, JDBC or other sources as required.

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IPersonAttributeDao dao = PersonDirectory.getPersonAttributeDaoInstance();
Map userAttributes = dao.getUserAttributes(UserID);
IPerson person = PersonFactory.createPerson();
person.setAttributes(userAttributes);

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Below is a description of the default Person Directory configuration.  See JDBC User Attribute Sources and LDAP User Attribute Sources for examples of setting additional attributes via JDBC and LDAP.

Configuring PersonDirectory

PersonDirectory is a uPortal customization point.

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Spring and PersonDirectory

PersonDirectory is implemented using Spring. Currently a Spring beans.dtd-compliant XML file named personDirectoryContext.xml declares the configuration of an instance of IPersonAttributeDao. The class PersonDirectory delegates to this Spring-configured IPersonAttributeDao instance to actually implement the PersonDirectory behavior. PersonDirectory uses PortalApplicationContextFacade to access the the uPortal Spring application context.

JDBC Example

JDBC Example

For examples, visit the page dedicated to JDBC User Attribute Sources.

LDAP example

In this example we implement IPersonAttributeDao using an LdapPersonAttributeDaoImpl.

Here we use the ILdapServer named "personLdap" managed by LdapServices. We configure the map from LDAP attribute names to uPortal attribute names and the query we'll use to look up the user. Advanced configuration allows mapping LDAP attribute names to multiple uPortal attribute names.

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For examples, visit the page dedicated to LDAP User Attribute Sources.

Request Attribute Filter Example

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