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Searching entities through custom attribute value.

Sushil Patidar

april 05, 2014

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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");
          
             }
          
           }