Obtain a local copy of an object

To obtain a local copy of an administration object, use the constructor for the Java™ class representing the administration object.

For example, to get a copy of the PDUser object representing a particular Security Verify Access user, you would use the PDUser constructor as shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1. Getting a local copy of a PDUser object

    /*------------------------------------------------------------------
    * Obtain a user using the PDUser constructor.
    *------------------------------------------------------------------
    */
    
    // Set up all of the user's attributes
    String name = "Zachary Wommbat";
    String firstName = "Zachary";
    String lastName = "Wommbat";
    String rgyName = "cn=" + name + "," + rgySuffix;
    PDRgyUserName pdRgyUserName =
    new PDRgyUserName(rgyName, firstName, lastName);
    messages.clear()
    
    PDUser user = new PDUser(mySecurityContext,
    pdRgyUserName,
    messages);

After obtaining a local copy of the administration object, use the instance methods on the object to retrieve or set data associated with the object.

Parent topic: Manipulating administration objects