How to retrieve all the Groups/Roles a user is member of using SOAP services? - soap

Question

I am trying to collect some user informations using SOAP services.
I was able to get the Job Title for a given user, but I don't understand how to retrieve the list of groups and roles that a user has.
Can I simply use the GroupServiceSoap.getUserPlaces(long userId, String[] classNames, int max) method? Or is there another way I can get these fields?
Currently my code:
private static URL _getURL(String remoteUser, String password, String serviceName) {
final String LIFERAY_PROTOCOL = "http://";
final String LIFERAY_TCP_PORT = "8080";
final String LIFERAY_FQDN = "localhost";
final String LIFERAY_AXIS_PATH = "/api/secure/axis/";
try {
return new URL(LIFERAY_PROTOCOL + URLEncoder.encode(remoteUser, "UTF-8") + ":"
+ URLEncoder.encode(password, "UTF-8") + "#" + LIFERAY_FQDN
+ ":" + LIFERAY_TCP_PORT + LIFERAY_AXIS_PATH + serviceName);
} catch (MalformedURLException e) {
return null;
} catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
return null;
}
}
[...]
public static void main(String[] argv){
public final String LIFERAY_USER_SERVICE="Portal_UserService";
public final String LIFERAY_COMPANY_SERVICE="Portal_CompanyService";
public final String LIFERAY_GROUP_SERVICE = "Portal_GroupService";
//company.default.web.id property
public final String LIFERAY_DEFAULT_COMPANY_ID = "liferay.com";
UserServiceSoap userService = new UserServiceSoapServiceLocator().getPortal_UserService(_getURL(USER_IDENTIFIER,USER_PASSWORD, LIFERAY_USER_SERVICE));
//This code is usefull if you want to use SOAP setter.
//((Portal_UserServiceSoapBindingStub) userService).setUsername(USER_IDENTIFIER);
//((Portal_UserServiceSoapBindingStub) userService).setPassword(USER_PASSWORD);
CompanyServiceSoap companyService = new CompanyServiceSoapServiceLocator().getPortal_CompanyService(_getURL(USER_IDENTIFIER, USER_PASSWORD, LIFERAY_COMPANY_SERVICE));
long companyId = companyService.getCompanyByMx(LIFERAY_DEFAULT_COMPANY_ID).getCompanyId();
// Here I retrieve my user, and can access some properties, but not them all !
UserSoap user = userService.getUserByEmailAddress(companyId, target_user_mail);
//TODO : I got hte JobTittle that I want, later I will do something more util thant just print it, I swear it my precious !
System.out.println(user.getJobTitle());
GroupServiceSoap groupService = new GroupServiceSoapServiceLocator().getPortal_GroupService(_getURL(USER_IDENTIFIER, USER_PASSWORD, LIFERAY_GROUP_SERVICE));
//this one return an empty array
GroupSoap[] userPlaces = groupService.getUserPlaces(new String[]{"Group", "Role"}, 150);
//this return an array of size 1, but the only GroupSoap seems to be a structural groups without any usefull properties to me.
GroupSoap[] userPlaces = groupService.getUserPlaces(null, 150);
}

Answer 1

Use this method to get user role and group user id
UserServiceSoap.getRoleUserIds
UserServiceSoap.getGroupUserIds
HTH

Answer 2

It is only a partial answer.
In order to get all the User Roles one can do this :
RoleServiceSoap roleService = new RoleServiceSoapServiceLocator().getPortal_RoleService(_getURL(USER_IDENTIFIER, USER_PASSWORD, LIFERAY_ROLE_SERVICE));
RoleSoap[] userRoles = roleService.getUserRoles(user.getUserId());
with user variable an instance of UserSoap.
The SOAP access must be done by an Admin user in order to get access to the Role List. The user can't access this himself.