Creating User Profile in AEM

Hello everyone,

In this blog, we will be focusing on how to create a user and user profiles in AEM.  It is generally needed when we create login and signup forms.

Depending on the use case, users can be created using:

i) In the UserManager API ,we can create a user, password under a specific group and provide permissions to them.

Sample code for UserManager API

[java]
ResourceResolver resolver=request.getResourceResolver();
Session session=request.getResourceResolver().adaptTo(Session.class);
UserManager userManager = resolver.adaptTo(UserManager.class);
Group group=userManager.createGroup(" Group Name");
User user=userManager.createUser("username",”pwd”);
if (! userManager.isAutoSave()) {
session.save();
}
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ii) The other case is when you have to create a profile for user like username, password, group, email, address, contact etc. For this purpose AccountManager API can be used.

Sample Code for AccountManager API:


[java]
AccountManagerFactory accountManagerFactory;
@Reference
private ResourceResolverFactory resolverFactory;
@Override
Map<String, Object> serviceParams = new HashMap<String, Object>();
serviceParams.put(SUBSERVICE, "signUpService");
ResourceResolverresolver=resolverFactory.getServiceResourceResolver(serviceParams)
Session session = resolver.adaptTo(Session.class);
AccountManager accountManager = accountManagerFactory.createAccountManager(session);
Map<String,RequestParameter[]> profilemap = new HashMap<>();
accountManager.getOrCreateAccount(“userName”, “password”, "admin", profilemap);

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The Map can be populated in two ways:

a) If the value of the profile property is coming from form



[java] profilemap.put("email", request.getRequestParameters("email")); [/java]

//like email we can add additional attributes in profile

b) If the property is not in RequestParameters then—–



[java] String email=”shivanig@intelligrape.com”;
profilemap.put(“email”,new RequestParameter[]{new Parameters(email) }); [/java]

//Create a POJO class to set values of additional attribute—-



[java]final class Parameters implements RequestParameter {
private final String parameter;
private Parameters(String parameter)
{
this.parameter = parameter;
}}
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If you want to see your created Users,Go to Crxde , /home/Users ……..You can see your users and profiles also.

So here you see how you can create users in AEM and create profiles for them.

Regards: Shivani Garg