List of Users

[anil.saldhana]

Tom asks:

the actual question was: I'm trying to obtain a list of all users.

I guess this method should do the trick:

 Collection<Identity> identities = identitySession
 .getPersistenceManager()
 .findIdentity((IdentitySearchControl[])null);

I assume this gets me the users *and* groups, right ?

I only found following search controls:

 if (control instanceof PageSearchControl)
 {
 pageSearchControl = (PageSearchControl)control;
 }
 else if (control instanceof SortByNameSearchControl)
 {
 sortSearchControl = (SortByNameSearchControl)control;
 }
 else if (control instanceof AttributeFilterSearchControl)
 {
 attributeFilterControl = (AttributeFilterSearchControl)control;
 }
 else if (control instanceof NameFilterSearchControl)
 {
 nameFilterSearchControl = (NameFilterSearchControl)control;
 }

Should I be looking into the attributes to filter for the users ?

[bdaw]

I think the main confusion is a bit about naming:
IdentityType - parent interface for Identity and Group
Identity aka user
Group aka group...

This is covered in the "API" part of the design doc: http://www.jboss.org/community/docs/DOC-13261

The decision to use the name "Identity" and not simply "User" was mainly because "Identity" in some authentication/authorization scenarios can be also machines... Now I'm a bit afraid that it will confuse people.

So for the methods:

identitySession.getPersistenceManager()
 .findIdentity(null);

will return all Identity objects (so all users if you prefer such naming)

identitySession.getPersistenceManager().
 findGroup(groupType, null)

all Group objects for a given group type.

Then controls only let to narrow or order/sort results.

With RelationshipManager you can get all Group objects associated with a given Identity regardless of the GroupType.

To follow some "real life" scenario with the API look at this API test case:
http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/jbossidentity/idm/trunk/idm/src/test/java/org/jboss/identity/idm/impl/api/OrganizationTest.java

One of the tests map small part of the structure of jboss.org projects so should let to understand API concepts better.