On 24/09/2012 12:21, Colm O hEigeartaigh wrote:
Hi all,
Here are some more questions I have about propagation/synchronization
(all using 1.1.0-SNAPSHOT)
1) I have a H2 backend that I can propagate and synchronize
successfully to/from in Syncope. However, when I create a new user in
Syncope and propagate to the backend, the password shows up as "null"
in the table, even though my Resource has a mapping for the password.
Is this expected or is there something obviously wrong I'm doing here?
Which cipher algorithm did you configure for your Database Table
Connector? [1] Which version of the Database Table Connector are you using?
2) What is the expected behaviour when the primary key / username of a
user changes in the backend? For my Apache DS backend, nothing happens
in Syncope. For my H2 backend, a new user appears with the changed
username in Syncope, but the old username remains in the user list.
When you manually change some field - mapped as 'AccountId' in Syncope -
on an external resource, Syncope does not have anymore an handle to
understand that the remote user object is linked to an internal user.
H2 behavior looks normal the but ApacheDS' does not sound: have you
tried to look at connid log during the further synchronization from
ApacheDS?
3) What is the expected behaviour when importing a user from multiple
resources? So let's say I import a user from a ldap backend, and now I
want to import a user with the same name from an sql backend. Is there
any way to "merge" the two backends into a single Syncope user?
Provided that "importing" == "synchronizing with full reconciliation",
you must be sure first of all to flag 'Update matched identities' in the
Synchronization task definition. Generally speaking, the match between
an external user object during synchronization and an internal Syncope
user is done through the 'AccountId' schema mapping of the synchronizing
external resource.
If you want to implement any custom matching, you need to provide your
own "Actions class" [2]'s beforeUpdate() implementation.
Regards.
[1] http://code.google.com/p/connid/wiki/DatabaseTable
[2]
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SYNCOPE/SynchronizationActionsClass
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Francesco Chicchiriccò
ASF Member, Apache Cocoon PMC and Apache Syncope PPMC Member
http://people.apache.org/~ilgrosso/
