This article is an extension of Part 1 (Part 1) where the gwutils java class has been added with more generic Http methods. In the previous example very specific use case requirements were targeted. The focus still has been with the GroupWise requirements as explained in the previous part and hence testing has been done only with the GroupWise REST apis via Identity manager. In no way this article is to be used as a substitute to the GWREST Identity manager connector offered out of the box . It is to be used as an extension to the existing Groupwise REST connector in situations where  there is a need to make GroupWise REST calls to solve use cases for which there is no functionality(yet) in the existing out of the box driver or where the requirement is very specific for a certain Groupwise REST call to be available in your implementation.

(Note: Please refer to Part 1 for the needed setup to get the java class working in the Identity Manager policies.

The "GW14 Rest Operations" policy and its rules are placed in the output transformations just for demo purposes. Hence these policies can be moved to any policy set as required and the trigger conditions modified to satisfy a real world use case. That said from where ever these rules are being called , ensure that the gwutils namespace is added as explained in the part 1.)

Essentially 4 new methods have been added to support the 4 types of REST methods. They are GET, PUT, POST and DELETE.

Executing HttpGet

Method Name: exeGet

Method Parameter: Takes the complete GroupWise REST URI as the string input.

Method Output: GroupWise response as XML output

Policy example of fetching groupmemberships of a user:

Example of executing HttpGet

Trace:

[02/21/16 09:54:32.270]:GroupWise 2014 REST ST:      Action: do-set-local-variable("varURI",scope="policy","https://192.168.1.165:9710/gwadmin-service/domains/GW14LAB/postoffices/GW14PO/users/Dom9U2/groupmemberships").
[02/21/16 09:54:32.270]:GroupWise 2014 REST ST:        arg-string("https://192.168.1.165:9710/gwadmin-service/domains/GW14LAB/postoffices/GW14PO/users/Dom9U2/groupmemberships")
[02/21/16 09:54:32.270]:GroupWise 2014 REST ST:          token-text("https://192.168.1.165:9710/gwadmin-service/domains/GW14LAB/postoffices/GW14PO/users/Dom9U2/groupmemberships")
[02/21/16 09:54:32.270]:GroupWise 2014 REST ST:          Arg Value: "https://192.168.1.165:9710/gwadmin-service/domains/GW14LAB/postoffices/GW14PO/users/Dom9U2/groupmemberships".
[02/21/16 09:54:32.271]:GroupWise 2014 REST ST:      Action: do-set-local-variable("varGWMemNS",scope="policy",token-xpath("gwutils:exeGet($varURI)")).
[02/21/16 09:54:32.271]:GroupWise 2014 REST ST:        arg-string(token-xpath("gwutils:exeGet($varURI)"))
[02/21/16 09:54:32.271]:GroupWise 2014 REST ST:          token-xpath("gwutils:exeGet($varURI)")
[02/21/16 09:54:32.271]:GroupWise 2014 REST ST:            == GWRestUtils ==> : GroupWise URI (exeGet) : https://192.168.1.165:9710/gwadmin-service/domains/GW14LAB/postoffices/GW14PO/users/Dom9U2/groupmemberships
[02/21/16 09:54:32.297]:GroupWise 2014 REST ST:            == GWRestUtils ==> :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><list xmlns:ns2="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
    <object xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:type="membership">
        <domainName>GW14LAB</domainName>
        <id>GROUP.GW14LAB.gw14PO.GWGrp5</id>
        <name>GWGrp5</name>
        <postOfficeName>gw14PO</postOfficeName>
        <participation>CARBON_COPY</participation>
    </object>
    <resultInfo>
        <outOf>1</outOf>
    </resultInfo>
</list>

[02/21/16 09:54:32.308]:GroupWise 2014 REST ST:            == GWRestUtils ==> : Successfully executed HttpGet

Executing HttpPut

Method Name: exePut

Method Parameter 1: Takes the complete GroupWise REST URI as the string input.

Method Parameter 2: XML string representing the data to be updated.

Method Output: GroupWise response as XML output

Policy example of changing the participation of a user in a group (changing primary to carbon copy) :

Example of executing HttpPut

Trace :

[02/21/16 09:54:32.308]:GroupWise 2014 REST ST:      Action: do-set-local-variable("varURI",scope="policy","https://192.168.1.165:9710/gwadmin-service/domains/GW14LAB/postoffices/GW14PO/groups/GWGrp5/members/USER.GW14LAB.GW14PO.Dom9U3").
[02/21/16 09:54:32.309]:GroupWise 2014 REST ST:        arg-string("https://192.168.1.165:9710/gwadmin-service/domains/GW14LAB/postoffices/GW14PO/groups/GWGrp5/members/USER.GW14LAB.GW14PO.Dom9U3")
[02/21/16 09:54:32.309]:GroupWise 2014 REST ST:          token-text("https://192.168.1.165:9710/gwadmin-service/domains/GW14LAB/postoffices/GW14PO/groups/GWGrp5/members/USER.GW14LAB.GW14PO.Dom9U3")
[02/21/16 09:54:32.309]:GroupWise 2014 REST ST:          Arg Value: "https://192.168.1.165:9710/gwadmin-service/domains/GW14LAB/postoffices/GW14PO/groups/GWGrp5/members/USER.GW14LAB.GW14PO.Dom9U3".
[02/21/16 09:54:32.309]:GroupWise 2014 REST ST:      Action: do-set-local-variable("varURIInputXML",scope="policy","<member><forceNullOnAttrs/>  <participation>CARBON_COPY</participation></member>").
[02/21/16 09:54:32.309]:GroupWise 2014 REST ST:        arg-string("<member><forceNullOnAttrs/>  <participation>CARBON_COPY</participation></member>")
[02/21/16 09:54:32.310]:GroupWise 2014 REST ST:          token-text("<member><forceNullOnAttrs/>  <participation>CARBON_COPY</participation></member>")
[02/21/16 09:54:32.310]:GroupWise 2014 REST ST:          Arg Value: "<member><forceNullOnAttrs/>  <participation>CARBON_COPY</participation></member>".
[02/21/16 09:54:32.310]:GroupWise 2014 REST ST:      Action: do-set-local-variable("varGWMemNS",scope="policy",token-xpath("gwutils:exePut($varURI,$varURIInputXML)")).
[02/21/16 09:54:32.310]:GroupWise 2014 REST ST:        arg-string(token-xpath("gwutils:exePut($varURI,$varURIInputXML)"))
[02/21/16 09:54:32.310]:GroupWise 2014 REST ST:          token-xpath("gwutils:exePut($varURI,$varURIInputXML)")
[02/21/16 09:54:32.310]:GroupWise 2014 REST ST:            == GWRestUtils ==> : GroupWise URI   (exePut) : https://192.168.1.165:9710/gwadmin-service/domains/GW14LAB/postoffices/GW14PO/groups/GWGrp5/members/USER.GW14LAB.GW14PO.Dom9U3
[02/21/16 09:54:32.311]:GroupWise 2014 REST ST:            == GWRestUtils ==> : GroupWise Input (exePut) : <member><forceNullOnAttrs/>  <participation>CARBON_COPY</participation></member>
[02/21/16 09:54:32.322]:GroupWise 2014 REST ST:            == GWRestUtils ==> : Sucessfully executed HttpPut
[02/21/16 09:54:32.329]:GroupWise 2014 REST ST:            Token Value: "200".
[02/21/16 09:54:32.330]:GroupWise 2014 REST ST:          Arg Value: "200".

(Note: Only xml type input is accepted at this time when updating GroupWise)

Executing HttpPost

Method Name: exePost

Method Parameter 1: Takes the complete GroupWise REST URI as the string input.

Method Parameter 2: XML string representing the data to be updated.

Method Output: GroupWise response as XML output

Policy example of adding a user to a group:

Example of executing HttpPost

[02/19/16 07:33:22.708]:GroupWise 2014 REST ST:      Action: do-set-local-variable("varURI",scope="policy","https://192.168.1.165:9710/gwadmin-service/domains/GW14LAB/postoffices/GW14PO/groups/GWGrp5/members").
[02/19/16 07:33:22.709]:GroupWise 2014 REST ST:        arg-string("https://192.168.1.165:9710/gwadmin-service/domains/GW14LAB/postoffices/GW14PO/groups/GWGrp5/members")
[02/19/16 07:33:22.709]:GroupWise 2014 REST ST:          token-text("https://192.168.1.165:9710/gwadmin-service/domains/GW14LAB/postoffices/GW14PO/groups/GWGrp5/members")
[02/19/16 07:33:22.709]:GroupWise 2014 REST ST:          Arg Value: "https://192.168.1.165:9710/gwadmin-service/domains/GW14LAB/postoffices/GW14PO/groups/GWGrp5/members".
[02/19/16 07:33:22.709]:GroupWise 2014 REST ST:      Action: do-set-local-variable("varURIInputXML",scope="policy","<member><id>USER.GW14LAB.GW14PO.Dom9U2</id><forceNullOnAttrs/><participation>PRIMARY</participation></member>").
[02/19/16 07:33:22.709]:GroupWise 2014 REST ST:        arg-string("<member><id>USER.GW14LAB.GW14PO.Dom9U2</id><forceNullOnAttrs/><participation>PRIMARY</participation></member>")
[02/21/16 09:54:32.310]:GroupWise 2014 REST ST:          token-text("<member><id>USER.GW14LAB.GW14PO.Dom9U2</id><forceNullOnAttrs/><participation>PRIMARY</participation></member>")
[02/21/16 09:54:32.310]:GroupWise 2014 REST ST:          Arg Value: "<member><id>USER.GW14LAB.GW14PO.Dom9U2</id><forceNullOnAttrs/><participation>PRIMARY</participation></member></member>".
[02/21/16 09:54:32.310]:GroupWise 2014 REST ST:      Action: do-set-local-variable("varGWReturnCode",scope="policy",token-xpath("gwutils:exePost($varURI,$varURIInputXML)")).
[02/21/16 09:54:32.310]:GroupWise 2014 REST ST:        arg-string(token-xpath("gwutils:exePut($varURI,$varURIInputXML)"))
[02/21/16 09:54:32.310]:GroupWise 2014 REST ST:          token-xpath("gwutils:exePut($varURI,$varURIInputXML)")
[02/21/16 09:54:32.310]:GroupWise 2014 REST ST:            == GWRestUtils ==> : GroupWise URI   (exePut) : https://192.168.1.165:9710/gwadmin-service/domains/GW14LAB/postoffices/GW14PO/groups/GWGrp5/members
[02/21/16 09:54:32.311]:GroupWise 2014 REST ST:            == GWRestUtils ==> : GroupWise Input (exePut) : <member><id>USER.GW14LAB.GW14PO.Dom9U2</id><forceNullOnAttrs/><participation>PRIMARY</participation></member>
[02/21/16 09:54:32.322]:GroupWise 2014 REST ST:            == GWRestUtils ==> : Sucessfully executed HttpPost
[02/21/16 09:54:32.329]:GroupWise 2014 REST ST:            Token Value: "200".
[02/21/16 09:54:32.330]:GroupWise 2014 REST ST:          Arg Value: "200".

(Note: Only xml type input is accepted at this time when updating GroupWise)

Executing HttpDelete

Method Name: exeDelete

Method Parameter: Takes the complete GroupWise REST URI as the string input of the object to be deleted.

Method Output: GroupWise response as XML output

Policy example deleting a user:

Example of executing HttpDelete

Trace:

[02/21/16 11:34:36.308]:GroupWise 2014 REST ST:      Action: do-set-local-variable("varURI",scope="policy","https://192.168.1.165:9710/gwadmin-service/domains/GW14LAB/postoffices/GW14PO/users/Dom9U2").
[02/21/16 11:34:36.309]:GroupWise 2014 REST ST:        arg-string("https://192.168.1.165:9710/gwadmin-service/domains/GW14LAB/postoffices/GW14PO/users/Dom9U2")
[02/21/16 11:34:36.309]:GroupWise 2014 REST ST:          token-text("https://192.168.1.165:9710/gwadmin-service/domains/GW14LAB/postoffices/GW14PO/users/Dom9U2")
[02/21/16 11:34:36.309]:GroupWise 2014 REST ST:          Arg Value: "https://192.168.1.165:9710/gwadmin-service/domains/GW14LAB/postoffices/GW14PO/users/Dom9U2".
[02/21/16 11:34:36.310]:GroupWise 2014 REST ST:      Action: do-set-local-variable("varGWReturnCode",scope="policy",token-xpath("gwutils:exeDelete($varURI)")).
[02/21/16 11:34:36.310]:GroupWise 2014 REST ST:        arg-string(token-xpath("gwutils:exeDelete($varURI)"))
[02/21/16 11:34:36.310]:GroupWise 2014 REST ST:          token-xpath("gwutils:exeDelete($varURI)")
[02/21/16 11:34:36.310]:GroupWise 2014 REST ST:            == GWRestUtils ==> : GroupWise URI   (exeDelete) : https://192.168.1.165:9710/gwadmin-service/domains/GW14LAB/postoffices/GW14PO/users/Dom9U2
[02/21/16 11:34:36.322]:GroupWise 2014 REST ST:            == GWRestUtils ==> : Sucessfully executed HttpDelete
[02/21/16 11:34:36.329]:GroupWise 2014 REST ST:            Token Value: "200".
[02/21/16 11:34:36.330]:GroupWise 2014 REST ST:          Arg Value: "200".

Hope this is helpful and please leave any comment below if this can be improved in anyway.

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