[midPoint] Problem with correlation and external attribute

Pavol Mederly mederly at evolveum.com
Fri Sep 25 11:33:04 CEST 2020


Ethan!!!

You are a genius.

Of course it /is/ a problem. I was myself curious what the cause is but 
had no time to look. And even if I did, most probably I wouldn't see it. :-D

Pavol Mederly
Software developer
evolveum.com
  

On 25/09/2020 11:25, Ethan Kromhout via midPoint wrote:
>
> Ivan and Andrea,
>
> Is it problematic that the targetNamespace used in this extension 
> could collide with one of the midPoint provided ones? I've always use 
> a URN unique to my organization.
>
> Ethan
>
> On 9/25/20 4:10 AM, Ivan Noris via midPoint wrote:
>>
>> Hi Andrea,
>>
>> can you try searching by that extension attribute in midPoint using 
>> Query playground?
>>
>> Ivan
>>
>> On 25. 9. 2020 9:44, Andrea Picconi via midPoint wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi again,
>>>
>>> I also tried @Ethan Kromhout <mailto:kromhout at unc.edu>’s example, 
>>> but it still gives me the two errors I showed you in the previous mail.
>>>
>>> I probably did something wrong in the setting, below how I set it 
>>> all up:
>>>
>>> this is my extension_user_field schema namespace:
>>>
>>> <xsd:schema elementFormDefault=/"qualified"/
>>>
>>> targetNamespace=/"http://midpoint.evolveum.com/xml/ns/public/resource/instance-3"/
>>>
>>>    xmlns:tns=/"http://midpoint.evolveum.com/xml/ns/public/resource/instance-3"/
>>>
>>>             
>>> xmlns:a=/"http://prism.evolveum.com/xml/ns/public/annotation-3"/
>>>
>>>             
>>> xmlns:c=/"http://midpoint.evolveum.com/xml/ns/public/common/common-3"/
>>>
>>> xmlns:xsd=/"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"/>
>>>
>>> here the indexed attribute:
>>>
>>> <xsd:element name=/"uidLDAP"/ type=/"xsd:string"/ minOccurs=/"0"/ 
>>> maxOccurs=/"1"/>
>>>
>>> <xsd:annotation>
>>>
>>> <xsd:appinfo>
>>>
>>> <a:indexed>true</a:indexed>
>>>
>>> <a:displayName>LDAP UID</a:displayName>
>>>
>>> <a:displayOrder>550</a:displayOrder>
>>>
>>>           <a:help>UID from LDAP</a:help>
>>>
>>> </xsd:appinfo>
>>>
>>> </xsd:annotation>
>>>
>>> </xsd:element>
>>>
>>> here instead the correlation that I have tried, starting from what 
>>> you have seen above:
>>>
>>> <correlation>
>>>
>>>     <q:equal>
>>>
>>>         <q:path 
>>> xmlns:ri="http://midpoint.evolveum.com/xml/ns/public/resource/instance-3">extension/uidLDAP</q:path>
>>>
>>> <expression>
>>>
>>>             <path 
>>> xmlns:ri="http://midpoint.evolveum.com/xml/ns/public/resource/instance-3">
>>>
>>> declare namespace 
>>> ri="http://midpoint.evolveum.com/xml/ns/public/resource/instance-3";
>>>
>>> $projection/attributes/ri:sAMAccountName
>>>
>>> </path>
>>>
>>> </expression>
>>>
>>>     </q:equal>
>>>
>>> </correlation>
>>>
>>> Could you tell me where I'm wrong?
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>>
>>> Andrea
>>>
>>> *From:*midPoint <midpoint-bounces at lists.evolveum.com> *On Behalf Of 
>>> *Ethan Kromhout via midPoint
>>> *Sent:* Wednesday, September 23, 2020 3:12 PM
>>> *To:* midpoint at lists.evolveum.com
>>> *Cc:* Ethan Kromhout <kromhout at unc.edu>
>>> *Subject:* Re: [midPoint] Problem with correlation and external 
>>> attribute
>>>
>>> I have used an extension attribute in a similar way, though it 
>>> wasn't with AD. In my case I explicitly called out the namespace of 
>>> the custom schema, not sure if that was required, but it works okay. 
>>> Do note that the custom attribute must be indexed.
>>>
>>> In my schema I have the namespace and indexed attribute, note the 
>>> "targetNamespace":
>>>
>>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
>>> <xsd:schema elementFormDefault="qualified"
>>>             targetNamespace="http://unc.edu/xml/ns/uncPerson" 
>>> <http://unc.edu/xml/ns/uncPerson>
>>>             xmlns:tns="http://example.com/xml/ns/mySchema" 
>>> <http://example.com/xml/ns/mySchema>
>>>             
>>> xmlns:a="http://prism.evolveum.com/xml/ns/public/annotation-3" 
>>> <http://prism.evolveum.com/xml/ns/public/annotation-3>
>>>             
>>> xmlns:c="http://midpoint.evolveum.com/xml/ns/public/common/common-3" 
>>> <http://midpoint.evolveum.com/xml/ns/public/common/common-3>
>>>             xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" 
>>> <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema>>
>>>
>>>    <xsd:element name="subId" type="xsd:string" minOccurs="0" 
>>> maxOccurs="1">
>>>                 <xsd:annotation>
>>>                     <xsd:appinfo>
>>> <a:indexed>true</a:indexed>
>>> <a:displayName>subId</a:displayName>
>>>                         <a:help>Subject ID</a:help>
>>> <a:displayOrder>150</a:displayOrder>
>>>                     </xsd:appinfo>
>>>                 </xsd:annotation>
>>>             </xsd:element>
>>>
>>> Then in the correlation I reference that namespace as uncPerson:
>>>
>>> <correlation>
>>>                 <q:equal>
>>>                     <q:path 
>>> xmlns:uncPerson="http://unc.edu/xml/ns/uncPerson" 
>>> <http://unc.edu/xml/ns/uncPerson>>extension/uncPerson:subId</q:path>
>>>                     <expression>
>>>                         <path 
>>> xmlns:ri="http://midpoint.evolveum.com/xml/ns/public/resource/instance-3" 
>>> <http://midpoint.evolveum.com/xml/ns/public/resource/instance-3>>
>>>                             declare namespace 
>>> ri="http://midpoint.evolveum.com/xml/ns/public/resource/instance-3" 
>>> <http://midpoint.evolveum.com/xml/ns/public/resource/instance-3>;
>>>                             $account/attributes/ri:pid
>>>                         </path>
>>>                     </expression>
>>>                 </q:equal>
>>>             </correlation>
>>>
>>> Ethan
>>>
>>> On 9/23/20 8:55 AM, Andrea Picconi via midPoint wrote:
>>>
>>>     Hi all,
>>>
>>>     I have a problem for which I have searched for a solution
>>>     everywhere, but I couldn’t find anything: I am making a
>>>     correlation between an extended attribute present in the user in
>>>     midpoint (*/uidLDAP/*) and the */sAMAccountName/* attribute of
>>>     an AD account that I need to import.
>>>
>>>     below, you can see one of the tests made (of the many)
>>>
>>>     but this does not give me any errors, it just tells me that the
>>>     correlation has reported an unmatched:
>>>
>>>     But if I try to force the correlation by choosing the "change
>>>     owner" option and going to grab the correct user by hand in
>>>     midpoint, it works
>>>
>>>     So i think the problem comes from the attribute path on midpoint
>>>     (the extended one):
>>>
>>>     Has anyone already tried to use an extended attribute in the
>>>     first correlation path?
>>>
>>>     Could you help me?
>>>
>>>     Thank you and regards,
>>>
>>>     *Andrea Picconi*
>>>
>>>     /IAM (Identity Access Management)/
>>>
>>>
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>> -- 
>> Ivan Noris
>> Senior Identity Engineer
>> evolveum.com
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