I've just upgraded my beans to the latest...

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01 Sep 2003

I've just upgraded my beans to the latest version (Sept. 2002) to counter the setPassword() bug, but now I can't seem to add a "Group Membership" attribute to a User object. Using the NWDir bean, I can add the other three attributes that are associated with making a user join a group, but for some reason the "Group Membership" attribute won't work now, even though it did before I upgraded the beans. I'm setting it using the following call:

addFieldValue(userNWEntry, "Group Membership",
contextFromFullName(groupString));
// groupString being in full name format

Has the name of the attribute changed or something since the last release? And while on the subject of attribute names--what is the URL for the definitive list of attribute names? I've been using the NDS Schema reference that is in the C libraries documentation. I just wondered if this was the correct list for Java APIs too. Here is my code (neither the add nor remove group object works).

package authsys.testing;
import com.novell.beans.util.*;
import com.novell.beans.NWDir.*;
import com.novell.service.file.nw.*;
import java.util.Vector;

public class GroupTest {
   public static void main(String [] args){
      NWDir dirBean;
      NWEntry entry;
      NWValue value;
      NWValues values;
      
      try{
         // Get a user
         dirBean = new NWDir();
         String resource= "NDS:\\admin\admin\ajtest\0\W\0wises24";
         entry = dirBean.findEntry(resource);
         
         // Get his group
         values = entry.getFieldValues("Group Membership");
         value = values.next();
         
         // Remove the group and then add it back
         System.err.println("remove : " + entry.removeFieldValue("Group
                                Membership", value));
         System.err.println("add : " + entry.addFieldValue("Group
                             Membership", value));
      }
      catch(NWBeanException e){
         System.out.println(e.getMessage());
      }
   }
}

This is a bug that has been fixed by Engineering. Use the latest Directory bean that you can download from Novell's Web site and this problem should go away.

* Originally published in Novell AppNotes

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