Alfresco User Profile Sync with xternal application

sabinay — Tue, 30 Jun 2015 06:02:56 GMT

Hi,We have one authentication subsystem outside of alfresco and once user is validated through that we system they are redirected to alfresco and we create the user in alfresco.Our requirement is if user edit his profile like first name,last name, job profile etc then it has to be updated in alfresc

Re: Alfresco User Profile Sync with xternal application

steven_okennedy — Fri, 07 Aug 2015 16:21:12 GMT

Hi Sabinay,

Alfresco is split into two main applications, Alfresco (the repository) and Share (the user interface). Generally it is better to try and keep that split doing only user interface extensions in Share and doing any custom business logic/content operations as Alfresco extensions.

From your snippet above it would seem that you're looking at catching the event in Share and then trying to get Share to call your external service, which doesn't really meet this pattern. Alfresco.war has generally nicer and more maintainable patterns for these types of extensions and can be made in a more maintainable/upgradable way.

There could be many ways to accomplish this but I would suggest that you look at using a Behaviour to capture the change and call the logic you want to from there. You'll have access to call a HTTP client directly from the behaviour's code and should be a lot easier to debug and unit test. You can see examples of how to create a behaviour here: http://ecmarchitect.com/alfresco-developer-series-tutorials/behaviors/tutorial/tutorial.html

Steven

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