Jivespace: Message List - User management and (REST) Services

Re: User management and (REST) Services

communities@jivesoftware.com — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:16:22 GMT

Cool, I see. It's definately not hard to query our web services via either SOAP or REST for user data. The documentation is however sparse!

Check out UserService.getUserByUsername(String) -- that's likely what you'll want. Do you have the WSDL?

Re: User management and (REST) Services

tobias.himstedt@logica.com — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 07:28:15 GMT

Hi Brad,

thanks for your quick reply!

No, we don't want to use the services to authenticate users.We did see the authentication providers possibilities - which is quite helpful.

We want to have the users in Crowd (working as an SSO-Provider) and/or Jive (not sure how this works out). Additionally we need to check from an external system (cms) if a user is already registered with a certain email-address. Therefore Clearspace/SBS offers an according REST service which works well if the users are in Jives database. I don't know how this behaves if the user data is (also?) in Crowd.

Thank you & Regards -- Tobias

Re: User management and (REST) Services

communities@jivesoftware.com — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:22:13 GMT

Hey Tobias,

You know the saying: There are no dumb questions! Are you wanting to authenticate your SBS users against Crowd? If so you don't even really need to go through the web services stack! SBS has a pretty robust framework in place for creating custom authentication providers. There's some documentation about the dev. cycle for this on jivesoftware.com under Resources.

Let me know if that helps at all or if you have further questions/issues!

Cheers,

Brad

User management and (REST) Services

tobias.himstedt@logica.com — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:35:37 GMT

Hi,

this might be a dumb question: We would like to have Atlassian Crowd as a SSO system. Is it still possible to use the Jive Rest-Services, especially the userService to create or query auser?

Thanks & Regards -- Tobias