Get group members properties

[azivotic]

Hi,

I need to fetch in my JavaDelegate class properties of some user which is member of some group.

When i have node ref to the user i can fetch his properties on this way for example

final QName PROP_QNAME_EMAIL = QName.createQName("http://www.alfresco.org/model/content/1.0", "email");
final Map<QName, Serializable> properties = nodeService.getProperties(nodeRef);
properties.get(PROP_QNAME_EMAIL)
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But the problem is now that i only have GROUP NAME, and i don't know how to get NodeRef of the user which is in that group? Any idea on this?

Regards,
Aleksandar

[afaust]

Hello Aleksandar,

you can use the AuthorityService to retrieve the members of a specific group via getContainedAuthorities. Each user name you retrieve can be resolved to a person nodeRef via the PersonService afterwards.

A small suggestion: Try to use the QName constants provided by Alfresco in the ContentModel interface (and similar other interfaces for specific models). You avoid any issues with typos when constructing the QName yourself. It also is a tad more efficient for the size of your classfiles / PermGen, although this in itself may only be attractive enough for purists / perfectionists.

Regards
Axel

[azivotic]

Thank's man a lot on your help. 

I wrote:

final Set<String> authorities = authorityService.getContainedAuthorities(AuthorityType.GROUP, "GROUP_PMO support", false);
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where PMO support is the name of my group, but size of authorities is 0 and i am sure that there is two members of this group. What i am doing wrong?

Regards,
Aleksadnar

[azivotic]

lol, dumb me  ops: .

Instead of AuthorityType.GROUP it should be AuthorityType.User.

Working solution is:

final Set<String> authorities = authorityService.getContainedAuthorities(AuthorityType.USER, "GROUP_PMO support", false);
for (final String authority : authorities) {
            final NodeRef person = personService.getPerson(authority);
            final Map<QName, Serializable> properties = nodeService.getProperties(person);
            LOGGER.debug(properties.get(ContentModel.PROP_EMAIL).toString());
}
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Thanks Axel once again on your help and for pointing me to the ContentModel interface.

Cheers,
Aleksandar