Hi Francisco

Sounds like a fine idea. My username is Jesse van Bekkum. You can give me
write access.

Jesse van Bekkum


On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 8:52 AM, Francesco Chicchiriccò <ilgro...@apache.org
> wrote:

>  On 29/04/2013 15:42, Jesse van Bekkum wrote:
>
> Hi Francesco
>
>  Thanks for your help. There was one small issue with your example, since
> on user creation you do not have a usermod on the execution yet. But that
> was easily fixed.
>
>  I have used the following code and rule in my workflow to get this
> working. Might I suggest that we use this in the standard deployment of
> Syncope? I think that provisioning via the workflow is functionality that
> should be included out of the box. The version I made is parameterized via
> the workflow (description of usage is included) so it is not specific to my
> project.
>
>
> Jesse,
> this sounds like a nice extension: why don't you report it in a wiki page
> under [2]?
>
> You need to:
>  1. complete and submit an ICLA [3]
>  2. create a wiki user (if not already done) and tell me the username so
> that I can grant you write access to the wiki
>
> WDYT?
>
> Regards.
>
>
>   import org.activiti.engine.delegate.DelegateExecution;
> import org.activiti.engine.delegate.Expression;
> import org.apache.syncope.client.mod.UserMod;
> import org.apache.syncope.core.persistence.beans.user.SyncopeUser;
> import org.apache.syncope.core.propagation.PropagationByResource;
> import org.apache.syncope.core.workflow.ActivitiUserWorkflowAdapter;
> import org.apache.syncope.core.workflow.WorkflowException;
> import org.apache.syncope.core.workflow.activiti.AbstractActivitiDelegate;
> import org.slf4j.Logger;
> import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
>
>  /**
>  * This workflow service task allows to provision a resource to a user
> from the workflow.
>  *
>  * Use the following code in the workflow:
>  *
>  *          <serviceTask id="addResource" name="Add Resource"
>
> activiti:class="org.apache.syncope.core.workflow.activiti.ProvisionResources">
>                 <extensionElements>
>                     <activiti:field name="resource"
> stringValue="%%YOUR_RESOURCE%%"/>
>                 </extensionElements>
>             </serviceTask>
>  */
> public class ProvisionResources extends AbstractActivitiDelegate {
>
>      protected static final Logger LOG =
> LoggerFactory.getLogger(ProvisionResources.class);
>
>      private Expression resource;
>
>      public void setResource(Expression resource) {
>         this.resource = resource;
>     }
>
>      @Override
>     protected void doExecute(DelegateExecution execution) throws Exception
> {
>         String resourceName = (String) resource.getValue(execution);
>
>          if (resourceName == null || resourceName.isEmpty()) {
>             throw new WorkflowException(new IllegalStateException("Please
> specify a resource"));
>         }
>
>          SyncopeUser user = (SyncopeUser)
> execution.getVariable(ActivitiUserWorkflowAdapter.SYNCOPE_USER);
>         UserMod userMod = (UserMod)
> execution.getVariable(ActivitiUserWorkflowAdapter.USER_MOD);
>         if (userMod == null) {
>             userMod = new UserMod();
>         }
>
>          userMod.addResourceToBeAdded(resourceName);
>
>          // update SyncopeUser
>         PropagationByResource propByRes = dataBinder.update(user, userMod);
>
>          // report updated user and propagation by resource as result
>         execution.setVariable(ActivitiUserWorkflowAdapter.SYNCOPE_USER,
> user);
>
> execution.setVariable(ActivitiUserWorkflowAdapter.PROP_BY_RESOURCE,
> propByRes);
>
>      }
> }
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 10:38 AM, Francesco Chicchiriccò <
> ilgro...@apache.org> wrote:
>
>>   On 22/04/2013 21:40, Jesse van Bekkum wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>>  Quick question.
>>
>>  How can you provision a resource to a user from the workflow? I have a
>> workflow, and after creating a user with a rest call, I want, depending on
>> the path through the workflow, to automatically provision a resource.
>>
>>  I tried this in a workflow step:
>>
>>          ResourceDAO resourceDAO = CONTEXT.getBean(ResourceDAO.class);
>>         ExternalResource idp = resourceDAO.find("IDP_RESOURCE");
>>         SyncopeUser user = (SyncopeUser)
>>         execution.getVariable(ActivitiUserWorkflowAdapter.SYNCOPE_USER);
>>         user.addResource(idp);
>>
>>  But after creation the user had no resources. In the past (0.7) we have
>> used manual propagation, by retrieving the propagation handler from the
>> context and firing it, but that seems a bit inelegant to me.
>>
>>  What is the preferred solution to this (I think common) scenario?
>>
>>
>>  Hi Jesse,
>> please take a look at the Update task [1]: you could change the
>> doExecute() method there to match the logic expressed above
>>
>>
>>         SyncopeUser user = (SyncopeUser)
>> execution.getVariable(ActivitiUserWorkflowAdapter.SYNCOPE_USER);
>>          UserMod userMod = (UserMod)
>> execution.getVariable(ActivitiUserWorkflowAdapter.USER_MOD);
>>
>> // YOUR step, e.g. add resource
>> userMod.addResourceToBeAdded("IDP_RESOURCE");
>>
>>         // update SyncopeUser
>>         PropagationByResource propByRes = dataBinder.update(user,
>> userMod);
>>
>>         // report updated user and propagation by resource as result
>>         execution.setVariable(ActivitiUserWorkflowAdapter.SYNCOPE_USER,
>> user);
>>
>> execution.setVariable(ActivitiUserWorkflowAdapter.PROP_BY_RESOURCE,
>> propByRes);
>>
>> Please note the final statements execution.setVariable() - without these
>> the changes are not propagated back to the flow.
>>
>> Regards.
>>
>> [1]
>> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/syncope/branches/1_1_X/core/src/main/java/org/apache/syncope/core/workflow/user/activiti/task/Update.java
>>
>   [2]
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SYNCOPE/Extending+Syncope
> [3] http://www.apache.org/dev/new-committers-guide.html#cla
>
> --
> Francesco Chicchiriccò
>
> ASF Member, Apache Syncope PMC chair, Apache Cocoon PMC 
> Memberhttp://people.apache.org/~ilgrosso/
>
>

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