Searching entities through custom attribute value.

If you need to search Users who has particular custom attribute value .Using liferay expando API ,this can be acheived easly as follows.

     String attrValue ="IT"; 
   
     String attributeName ="user-department-name"; 
   
     String tableName = ExpandoTableConstants.DEFAULT_TABLE_NAME; 
   
     long classNameId = 
    ClassNameLocalServiceUtil.getClassNameId(User.class); 
   
     List<ExpandoValue> expandoValues =ExpandoValueLocalServiceUtil.getColumnValues(companyId, classNameId, tableName, attributeName, attrValue, -1,-1); 
   
     for(ExpandoValue expandoValue:expandoValues) 
   
       try { 
   
           long userId = expandoValue.getClassPK(); 
   
           User user  =UserLocalServiceUtil.getUser(userId); 
   
       } 
   
       catch(NoSuchUserException nsue) { 
   
        _log.error("No Such User Exist"); 
   
       } 
   
     }

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