Hi there,
As my journey with Liferay continues I thought it would be a good idea to write down some.. let’s say, miscellaneous stuff that were apparently trivial, but turned out to consume much more time than expected. So, there is one for today (actually happened last week) and I will keep updating this blog with new ones that I find (or remember 😛 ).
Use EntityLocalServiceUtil instead of EntityUtil wherever possible
For example use UserLocalServiceUtil instead of UserUtil if you need to programmatically update user details.
Explanation: I wrote a feature for Liferay that automatically synchronizes Liferay’s internal users with an external source. So, basically wrote a class for Liferay in Extended Environment that periodically checks the user that exist (or don’t exist any more) in this external source. Each time a new user appears there, it is also created as a new user inside of Liferay and when a new user is deleted from the external source, its Liferay corespondent must be deactivated . (If it was already created).
So I thought this will do the trick:
bla bla bla
bla bla bla
user.setActive(false);
UserUtil.update(user, true);
// it has the same effect for this operation no matter if you user true of false for the merge parameter
rest of the bla
but it does it only half way.
While in updates the status internally (checked the database), the user still somehow remains active because it is still displayed in the active users in Control Panel. (It should be displayed if you filter by inactive users). And also, while it is displayed as active, it has the reactivate option in its context menu. I did not check if this inconsistency (guess I can call it that) disappears after restarting Liferay because it would not be a solution.
To fix this I changed the code into:
bla bla bla
bla bla bla
user.setActive(false);
UserLocalServiceUtil.updateActive(user.getUserId(), false);
// the second parameter tell whether you want to activate or deactivate it. I want to deactivate now
even more bla
This way it is updated correctly everywhere and works just fine.
Another example of the same kind would be to use
UserLocalServiceUtil.addUserGroupUsers(group.getUserGroupId(), new long[] {user.getUserId()});
instead of
UserGroupUtil.addUser(group.getUserGroupId(), user);
with the before and after bla, if you like to programmatically add a user in a user group. Same thing here. The second call adds the user internally but the operation is not visible when looking in the Assign Members area of a user group. The first call does the trick all the way.
Stay tuned for more.
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