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Access to Managed Object Data

Managed object data is available to all CA Identity Manager APIs, for example:

• To the Business Logic Task Handler API, when validating user-supplied data on a task screen against attributes of CA Identity Manager objects
• To the Workflow API, when using attributes of CA Identity Manager objects to determine the next activity to perform in a workflow process
• To the Event Listener API, when performing these actions:
  • Setting or retrieving attributes of CA Identity Manager objects during the following event states: Pre-approval, Approved, and Rejected
  • Retrieving attributes of CA Identity Manager objects during the Post-execution event state

You can access managed objects in the following ways:

ProviderAccessor

• Interface

  ProviderAccessor

• API

  All

• Comments

  Read/write access.

  Provides direct access to the information in the data store.

  All APIs can read attribute data in objects retrieved through ProviderAccessor, but typically only business logic task handlers and event listeners modify these objects.

  Modifications are committed to the data store after the custom object calls modifyObject(). The modifications are committed immediately. No events are generated, and no workflow approvals, auditing, or security checks are performed.

BLTHContext

• Interface

  BLTHContext

• API

  Business Logic Task Handler

• Comments

  Read/write access.

  Provides access to the run-time instance of objects in the current task. Objects are accessed through BLTHContext get... methods.

  CA Identity Manager commits changes to the data store after any workflow approvals have been provided and the execution of events associated with the task is complete.

EventContext

• Interface

  EventContext

• API

  Event Listener

• Comments

  Read/write access. Can also generate secondary events.

  Provides access to the run-time instance of an object in a particular event.

  CA Identity Manager commits changes to the data store after any workflow approvals have been provided and the execution of the event is complete.

EventROCContext

• Interface

  EventROContext

• API

  Notification Rule Participant Resolver

• Comments

  Read/write access.

  Provides access to the run-time instance of an object in a particular event.

  CA Identity Manager commits changes to the data store after any workflow approvals have been provided and the execution of the event is complete.