Access Smartcloud User Profile using IBMSBT

Question

We are using SBT as a proxy to access Smartcloud content via OAuth2. We need to retrieve profile details for the logged in user on the server side using Java. In order to do so we call new com.ibm.sbt.services.client.smartcloud.profiles.ProfileService("smartcloudOA2").getMyProfile(). This was working fine until I realized that the returned profile object contains deprecated user profile details.

When I try to get profile details using new com.ibm.sbt.services.client.connections.profiles.ProfileService("smartcloudOA2").getMyProfile() I get following exception :

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Missing parameter: connections 
     at com.ibm.sbt.services.client.base.URLPattern.checkNoMissingParameters(URLPattern.java:67) 
     at com.ibm.sbt.services.client.base.URLPattern.format(URLPattern.java:58) 
     at com.ibm.sbt.services.client.base.URLBuilder.format(URLBuilder.java:82) 
     at com.ibm.sbt.services.client.connections.profiles.ProfileUrls.format(ProfileUrls.java:69) 
     at com.ibm.sbt.services.client.connections.profiles.ProfileService.getMyUserId(ProfileService.java:879) 
     at com.ibm.sbt.services.client.connections.profiles.ProfileService.getMyProfile(ProfileService.java:894) 
     at de.timetoact.xcc.conf.CloudServlet.doGet(CloudServlet.java:53) 
     at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:575) 
     at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:668) 
     at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ServletWrapper.service(ServletWrapper.java:1274) 
     at [internal classes] 
     at com.ibm.sbt.util.SBTFilter.doFilter(SBTFilter.java:53) 
     at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.filter.FilterInstanceWrapper.doFilter(FilterInstanceWrapper.java:194) 
     at [internal classes]

This is how the managed-beans.xml looks like:

...
<!-- Default Environment -->
    <managed-bean>
        <managed-bean-name>defaultEnvironment</managed-bean-name>
        <managed-bean-class>com.ibm.sbt.jslibrary.SBTEnvironment
        </managed-bean-class>
        <managed-bean-scope>application</managed-bean-scope>
        <managed-property>
            <property-name>endpoints</property-name>
            <value>smartcloudOA2</value>
        </managed-property>
    </managed-bean>
    <managed-bean>
        <managed-bean-name>smartcloudOA2</managed-bean-name>
        <managed-bean-class>com.ibm.sbt.services.endpoints.SmartCloudOAuth2Endpoint
        </managed-bean-class>
        <managed-bean-scope>session</managed-bean-scope>
        <managed-property>
            <property-name>url</property-name>
            <value>%{smartcloud.url}</value>
        </managed-property>
        <managed-property>
            <property-name>appName</property-name>
            <value>%{smartcloud.appName}</value>
        </managed-property>
        <managed-property>
            <property-name>clientID</property-name>
            <value>%{smartcloud.clientID}</value>
        </managed-property>
        <managed-property>
            <property-name>clientSecret</property-name>
            <value>%{smartcloud.clientSecret}
            </value>
        </managed-property>
        <managed-property>
            <property-name>forceTrustSSLCertificate</property-name>
            <value>true</value>
        </managed-property>
        <managed-property>
            <property-name>credentialStore</property-name>
            <value>CredStore</value>
        </managed-property>
    </managed-bean>
...

Is com.ibm.sbt.services.endpoints.SmartCloudOAuth2Endpoint compatible with com.ibm.sbt.services.client.connections.profiles.ProfileService ?

What is the best way to retrieve Smartcloud User Profile Information on the server side using SBT Java API?

yes it is compatible. We are looking at the entry. thanks Paul — Paul Bastide, Feb 12 '15 at 12:24

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 13 '15 at 08:37

Thanks Paul for fixing this issue - we do not get that exception anymore. But we still are not able to get the Profile object - when we call com.ibm.sbt.services.client.connections.profiles.ProfileService("smartcloudOA2").getMyProfile() it returns null. During debugging we saw that sbt is internally calling https://apps.na.collabserv.com/profiles/oauth/atom/profile.do?userid=[myid] in order to get my profile feed. And when we look at response closer, we see that the profile feed is not returned back, but the html for the smartcloud login page. When we call same url using sbt proxy via our web app smth like : https://localhost/ctx-root/service/proxy/smartcloudOA2/profiles/oauth/atom/profile.do?userid=[myid], we get the same login page instead of profile feed. Can you please take a look at this issue again?

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 13 '15 at 21:27

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The issue is in getMyUserId when it passes into the namedurlpart. I've merged in a Fix.

NamedUrlPart commonPart = new NamedUrlPart("connections",ProfilesConstants.COMMON);
        String peopleApiUrl = ProfileUrls.MY_USER_ID.format(this,commonPart);

It'll be in our next build, you can pull the change from github.

answered Feb 13 '15 at 21:27

Paul Bastide

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The mentioned Fix is good for the exceptions. Unfortunately it doies not yet fix the profile retrieval, calling getMypRofile still returns null. During further investigations, we saw that SBT issues a request on the wire but SmartCloud answers with a login page rather than the expected profile (See post below). – Michael Gollmick Mar 30 '15 at 12:07

Access Smartcloud User Profile using IBMSBT

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