role field not stored in database after identitymanager role creation

Question

I'm using seam 2.1.2 security and I create a role using identitymanager by jsf richfaces GUI. in creation process I would add a "description" to role created in database , the creation of role is ok but the description field is not added, I must update the role (in other operation by GUI) to see the description field stored in database. the question is what have I to do to store the "description" filed in creation operation?

bellow is my code:

  public boolean createRole(Role role) {
    IdentityManager identityManager = IdentityManager.instance();
logger.info("creating role:" + role.getRoleName());
if (identityManager.roleExists(role.getRoleName())) {
    return false;
}
if (identityManager.createRole(role.getRoleName())) {
    completeRolePersistence(role);
    return true;
}
return false;
}

and the completeRolePersistence method:

public void completeRolePersistence(Role role) {
    logger.info("setting additional info to role...");
    Query query = em.createNamedQuery("UPDT_ADDITIONALS");
    query.setParameter("name", role.getRoleName())
            .setParameter("description", role.getDescription())
            .setParameter("level", role.getRoleLevel());
    int updated = query.executeUpdate();
    logger.info("roles updated with desc : " + updated);
}

it seem that the query is not executed , i print in log

roles updated with desc : 0

Answer 1

The reason your code does not work is because your update query is executing BEFORE the role is actually inserted into the database, thus it updates nothing.

My advice is to not use the role/user creation methods in IdentityManager. You're better off creating Home components to create/edit your roles and users than having IdentityManager do it for you.

If you however want to pursue this, you need to overwrite JpaIdentityStore, customize the createRole method and have it populate the entity as needed.