[midPoint] Looking up a user in midpoint to get additional details

[Knox, Alex]

Hi Kevin,

I think you might be able to use midpoint.searchObjects after all —I was able to find a user in 4.4.6 using something like this:



import com.evolveum.midpoint.xml.ns._public.common.common_3.UserType
import com.evolveum.midpoint.prism.path.ItemPath

def query = prismContext.queryFor(UserType.class)
                        .item(ItemPath.create(UserType.F_EXTENSION, "person_ID")).eq(manager) // might need to be (manager + "")
                        .build()
def users = midpoint.searchObjects(UserType.class, query)

if (users.isEmpty()) {
    return null
}

return users[0].name



When I tested this in the mapping playground with an extension attribute, it would only work if I put extensionAttribute + “” in the query, rather than just extensionAttribute. Not sure if that’s just mapping playground rules.

Hope this helps!

Alex



From: midPoint <midpoint-bounces at lists.evolveum.com> on behalf of Collins, Kevin via midPoint <midpoint at lists.evolveum.com>
Date: Sunday, October 22, 2023 at 7:27 AM
To: midpoint at lists.evolveum.com <midpoint at lists.evolveum.com>
Cc: Collins, Kevin <K.J.Collins at hw.ac.uk>
Subject: [midPoint] Looking up a user in midpoint to get additional details
Hi all,


I’m _really_ stuck on how to search the midpoint repository to find a user by something other than their username and return some details about that user.

My use case is this:


  1.  Incoming data feed from HR contains a ‘manager’ value for each user.
  2.  The manager from HR value is the person_ID of the manager’s record also in the HR data feed:

     *   user-Y has a ‘manager’ value of ‘12345678’
     *   ‘12345678’ is the person_ID of user-Y’s manager

  1.  I need to be able to search the midpoint repo for ‘person_ID=12345678’ and get that object’s username.
  2.  There should be up to 1 occurrence of that person_ID, in the data since person_ID the immutable primary key in the HR data feed.

I’ve tried midpoint.searchObjectByName(UserType, …) but that only works if I already know the username of the object I’m searching for.  I’m trying to _fetch_ the username from midpoint knowing only the person_ID.  Same with midpoint.searchObjects(UserType, …).

I’ve tried implementing this lookup in the inbound resource and in a user template. And I’ve looked at loads of midpoint docs to see if there’s an example that I can tweak.

I’m clearly not understanding something!

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks in advance.


-Kev_C

--
Kevin Collins,
EDINBURGH, EH14 4AS,



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