Mapping Consumer Attributes

The producer does not have any real user identity and does not have any data associated with the user. The consumer propagates the common user details known as user profiles. The consumer chooses some of the common attributes such as name, address, and so on and optionally propagates these attributes to the producer. The producer can generate some meaningful data based on the user.

The Portal Server implementation of WSRP Consumer maps common user attributes stored in the user entry on the Sun Java System Directory Server to the standard set of user attributes that the WSRP specification mandates.

If a consumer portlet uses any of the attributes that are not specified in the LDAP schema, create a custom object class to store these attributes and add this object class to the user entry. After you create the attributes, map the LDAP attribute to the corresponding WSRP attribute using Sun Java System Access Manager administrator console. Mapping the LDAP attribute to the corresponding WSRP attribute allows the consumer to propagate custom user profile data that might be required by the producer.