Get group members with LiveCycle Java API

[fstarfeld]

I'm working with the LiveCycle Java API (LiveCycle 8.2) and I'm looking for

an example how to read the members of a group.

I'm able to get a Group (Type GroupImpl) using the PrincipalSearchFilter.

But how can I get the members of this group. I checked the
DirectoryManagerServiceClient and the different search filter classes
without success?As a workaround I could retrieve all users of my application domain and
check their memberships to see if they are in the concerned group. But this
is a dirty hack I don't really want to use.Any ideas?

[Former Community Member · Accepted solution]

Hi!

I know you mentioned that you looked into this without success, but it should really work.

First make a GroupMemebershipSearchFilter, setting the GroupOid to be ID of the group itself.  Using the DirectoryManagerServiceClient you can then call findGroupMembers using the searchFilter which returns a List<User>, as follows:

DirectoryManagerServiceClient directoryManager = new DirectoryManagerServiceClient(serviceConnection.getFactory());

List<User> userList = new ArrayList<User>();

try
{
userList = directoryManager.findGroupMembers(searchFilter);
}
catch (Exception e)
{

    // Error stuffs
}

return userList;

[fstarfeld]

Thanks a lot, fine!

Although the method findGroups() is deprecated and there should be another way to get the members of the groups. But for now it works for me.