Getting all possible values of a property in Personalization Server

[Angela Poynton]

I have a single-valued restricted property which has a number of pre-defined values. I want to be able to get hold of all of these values to use to populate a drop-down list in my portlet. Does anyone know how to achieve this?

[Angela Poynton]

for anyone who's interested I finally got a solution to this from a very nice man at BEA. Here it is:
The key is that you have to use the SchemaManager to get a Schema which will allow you to get get PropertyMetaData.
See the javadoc for more information.
Here you go:

<%-- This JSP page lists the restricted values for a multiple restricted property --%>
<%@ page import="java.util.*" %>
<%@ page import="com.beasys.commerce.axiom.util.helper.JNDIHelper,
                 com.beasys.commerce.foundation.property.SchemaManagerHome,
                 com.beasys.commerce.foundation.property.SchemaManager,
                 com.beasys.commerce.foundation.property.Schema,
                 com.beasys.commerce.foundation.property.SchemaManagerConstants,
                 com.beasys.commerce.foundation.property.PropertyMetaData,
                 com.beasys.commerce.axiom.util.ToolkitException,
                 java.rmi.RemoteException,
                 javax.ejb.CreateException" %>
<%@ page extends="com.beasys.commerce.axiom.jsp.JspBase" %>
<%
   /*
     I used the admin tool to create a "test" property set with
     a multiple, restricted text property called "restrictedWords".  The
     allowable values are "how", "now", "brown", "cow".  I selected one
     default value ("brown").
   */
 
    SchemaManagerHome smh = null;
    try
    {
        smh = (SchemaManagerHome) JNDIHelper.getHome("com.beasys.commerce.foundation.property.SchemaManager");
    }
    catch (ToolkitException e)
    {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
 
    PropertyMetaData metaData = null;
    try
    {
        SchemaManager sm = smh.create();
        // Get the schema for the user/group property set called "test"
        Schema schema = sm.getSchema("test", SchemaManagerConstants.USER_TYPE);
        // Get the meta data for the "restrictedWords" property
        metaData = schema.getPropertyMetaData("restrictedWords");
    }
    catch (CreateException e)
    {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    catch (RemoteException e)
    {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    Collection restrictedValues = metaData.getRestrictedValues();
    Iterator restrictedIter = restrictedValues.iterator();
    while (restrictedIter.hasNext())
    {
        out.println("<br>restricted value is: " + restrictedIter.next());
    }
 
%> 

I had finally come up with a solution of my own which (nearly) did the same thing, but this is a much more efficient way of doing it.
[This message has been edited by Angela Poynton (edited November 30, 2000).]