Querying Users Using IDK Remote APIs

To query for the current user's ID and group information from a remote application, use the IUserManager interface in the IDK.

The IUserManager interface only provides access to user-specific administrative functionality. To access user settings and user profile information, use the methods in the com.plumtree.remote.util package. To manipulate user objects, create an Object Manager of type ObjectClass.User. For details, see Retrieving ALI Object Managers Using IDK Remote APIs.

To query for the properties for an existing user, follow the steps below. (To retrieve a user ID, you can also execute a standard object query with type ObjectClass.User.)

Create a session with the portal. For details, see Initiating a PRC Session to Use IDK Remote APIs.
Retrieve an IUserManager by calling IRemoteSession.getUserManager.
Query the current user's groups, as shown in the sample code below.
Note: The current user is the user initially used to create the PRC session, the user associated with the login token.

This example retrieves the current user's group associations and prints out the group IDs.

Note: To print out the names of groups, you must look up each group using an IUserGroupManager (IObjectManager with ObjectClass.UserGroup); group names are available on each IObjectQueryRow.

Java

public static void printGroupIDs(IUserManager userManager)
 throws PortalException, MalformedURLException, RemoteException
{
 int[] ids = userManager.getCurrentUserGroups();
 for(int i = 0 ; i < ids.length ; i++)
 {
  System.out.println("Current user belongs to group with ID: " + ids[i]);
 } 
}

.NET (C#)

public static void PrintGroupIDs(IUserManager userManager)
 throws PortalException, MalformedURLException, RemoteException
{
 int[] ids = userManager.GetCurrentUserGroups();
 for(int i = 0 ; i < ids.length ; i++)
 {
  Console.WriteLine("Current user belongs to group with ID: " + ids[i]);
 } 
}

.NET (VB)

Public Shared Sub PrintGroupIDs(ByVal userManager As IUserManager)

 Dim ids() As Integer = userManager.GetCurrentUserGroups()

 Dim i As Integer 
 For i = 0 To ids.Length
  Console.WriteLine("Current user belongs to group with ID: " & ids[i])

EndSub

Parent topic: About Remote User Operations

AquaLogic User Interaction Development Guide

Querying Users Using IDK Remote APIs