RE: Anything to replace RUser in JTOpen?

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From: java400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:java400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Christopher J. Jewell
Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 1:57 PM
To: JAVA400-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Anything to replace RUser in JTOpen?

I was a little disappointed just now to discover that
JTOpen's com.ibm.as400.resource.Resource package has been deprecated.

I want to be able to list (in a generic manner) the
attributes and values of any resource, and in particular that
of User Profiles. The following deprecated technique nicely
does the job and is (ironically for a deprecated
technique) upwardly compatible with future i5/OS releases
because it's all generic!

...
system = new AS400(system_name);
boolean error = true;
RUser resource = new RUser(system, user_name);

try {

// Get the attribute meta data.
ResourceMetaData[] attributeMetaData =
resource.getAttributeMetaData();

// Loop through all attributes and print the values.
for(int i = 0; i < attributeMetaData.length; ++i)
{
Object attributeID =
attributeMetaData[i].getID();
Object value =
resource.getAttributeValue(attributeID);
System.out.println("Attribute " +
attributeID + " = " + value);
}

} catch (ResourceException e) {

e.printStackTrace();
}

....

Unless I'm missing something, it seems to me that the
suggested alternative of (for user
information)com.ibm.as400.access.UserList and
com.ibm.as400.access.User is less flexible because
com.ibm.as400.access.User requires the programmer to have
knowledge of the property getters (one has to program
'getDescroption()', 'getDirectoryEntry()', etc.)

Any thoughts anyone/someone who has been through this path
already? Maybe there is some alternative that I'm not aware of?

Thanks in advance

Chris Jewell
mailto:jewellcj@xxxxxxxxxxxx


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