OpenNTF/SocialSDK

create forum topics and replies on behalf of another user

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MJonker commented

In IBM Connections, we need to post topics and reply from a java (not web) application. I noticed in the API Documentation that you can provide a HTTP HEADER value to post a topic or reply on behalf of another user (impersonation).

We would like to use the Social Business Toolkit for this purpose, but the question is, how ?

I could not find a reference to X-LConn-RunAs in SBT source code.
Preferable it should be enough to be administrator of the forum when using this function.

Source:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32695692/is-x-lconn-runas-exposed-through-the-social-business-toolkit

prb112 commented

We will evaluate this request in our iteration plans.

zipwiz commented

Very interesting topic. Google returns matches for X-LConn-RunAs for Connections 5 Blogs and Forum API only. Usually forwardable LTPA tokens may also enable useful things, but if you have no "current authenticated user who is also known to Connections" this is no option anyway.

prb112 commented

I've added support for a more general method to add global headers to the endpoint.
Endpoint.addHeader(Name,Value)
When X-LConn-RunAs is public, you'll update each call with the text header.