1. Developing SOA Applications with Oracle SOA Suite
  2. XPath Extension Functions
  3. BPEL XPath Extension Functions
  4. lookupUser

lookupUser

This function returns LDAP user information.

:Signature:

ldap:lookupUser('directoryName','userId')

Arguments:

  • directoryName: The directory name specified in the directories.xml file. For information about the directories.xml file, see authenticate.

  • userId: The user ID to be searched.

Returns:

An XML element that contains the user information.

For this XPath function, all properties must be specified in the directories.xml file.

Example:

ldap:lookupUser('people','ou=people');

The following provides an example of the output:

<user dn="" xmlns="http://schemas.oracle.com/bpel/ldap">
<ou>people</ou>
<objectclass>organizationalUnit</objectclass>
<objectclass>top</objectclass>
<orclguid>8ABB9BA06FDD11DEBF9A7F3D47003274</orclguid>
</user>