The method createAuthentication(String, char[]) is undefined

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robertmarkbram

Hi All,

I am using Alfresco-Community-3.3 and am trying out the following example code from Jeff Potts Alfresco Developer Guide:

// client-extensions/src/java/com/someco/module/BootstrapAuthorityCreator.java
// create tuser1, tuser2, tuser3, tuser4
if(!authenticationService.authenticationExists("tuser1")) {
  authenticationService.createAuthentication("tuser1", "password".toCharArray());
  if (logger.isDebugEnabled()) logger.debug("Created tuser1 auth");
}‍‍‍‍‍‍

But I get this error:

The method createAuthentication(String, char[]) is undefined for the type AuthenticationService‍

And indeed when I look at the javadocs for org.alfresco.service.cmr.security.AuthenticationService there is no createAuthentication() method. It seems to have been moved into org.alfresco.service.cmr.security.MutableAuthenticationService. So, I changed authenticationService into a MutableAuthenticationService:

// private AuthenticationService authenticationService;
 private MutableAuthenticationService authenticationService;
‍‍‍

You also need to modify the signature of setAuthenticationService().

Rob

rwilson1982

Thank you very much for posting this 

I'm just getting in to developing for Alfresco and with Java (I have C# development background) and this was most helpful in getting me off the ground.