oracle.portal.provider.v1.http
Class BasicURLProvider

oracle.portal.provider.v1.http.URLProvider
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  +--oracle.portal.provider.v1.http.BasicURLProvider

public class BasicURLProvider

extends URLProvider

BasicURLProvider is meant for extracting external application and making it accessible to the renderer. Portlet will be rendered based on the Login URL and additional field information specified in external application.

Constructor Summary

BasicURLProvider()

Method Summary

java.lang.Object[]

initSession(oracle.portal.provider.v1.ProviderUser user, oracle.portal.provider.v1.ExternalPrincipal externalApp) Overridden method which does the job of extracting external applicaiton information through PDK-Java and store it for future reference.

Methods inherited from class oracle.portal.provider.v1.http.URLProvider

deregister, getAuthentication, getHttpsProxyInfo, getProxyInfo, getSubscriber, getSubscriberDetails, init, makeQueryString, readProxyInformation, register, setAuthentication, setHttpsProxyInfo, setProxyInfo, setSubscriberDetails, setUrlCookiePolicyHandler

Constructor Detail

BasicURLProvider

public BasicURLProvider()

Method Detail

initSession

public java.lang.Object[] initSession(oracle.portal.provider.v1.ProviderUser user,
                                      oracle.portal.provider.v1.ExternalPrincipal externalApp)
                               throws oracle.portal.provider.v1.ProviderException

Overridden method which does the job of extracting external applicaiton information through PDK-Java and store it for future reference. This enables the portlets to authenticate the user individually. ExternalApplication can be extracted from provider session as follows -

      
 ExternalPrincipal externalApp = (ExternalPrincipal) 
       pSession.getAttribute(UrlServicesUtils.EXTERNAL_APP);

Overrides:

initSession in class URLProvider

Parameters:

user - Current provider user. Used for getting provider session and the portal user name.

externalApp - Object holding external application details.

Returns:

Array of cookie objects back. This is returned to portal

Throws:

ProviderException -