ContentPropertyManager not working to get or set the confluence.user.site.homepage

[Thomas Berger]

According to https://developer.atlassian.com/confdev/development-resources/confluence-architecture/confluence-internals/persistence-in-confluence

it should be possible to manipulate properties stored in the OS_PROPERTYENTRY table in the database.

https://developer.atlassian.com/static/javadoc/confluence/4.2.4/reference/com/atlassian/confluence/core/ContentPropertyManager.html

public String getStringProperty (ContentEntityObject entity, String key)

Get a string property associated with a content entity object, or null if that property is not set. String properties can not be longer than 255 characters

Parameters

entity	the entity the property is associated with
key	the key with which to look up the property

The 'entity_name' is stored like 'USERPROPS-userKey'

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String userSiteHome = contentPropertyManager.getStringProperty((ContentEntityObject) user, "confluence.user.site.homepage");

I get the error message:

"com.atlassian.confluence.user.ConfluenceUserImpl cannot be cast to com.atlassian.confluence.core.ContentEntityObject"

Is there 'another' user object I should pass?

Or should I be using UserDetailsManager instead?

String userSiteHome = 
userDetailsManager.getStringProperty(user, "confluence.user.site.homepage");

This returns 'null'.

Is there a trick on how to use/initialize the UserDetailsManager?

[Robert Krause · Accepted solution]

Hi @Thomas Berger,

we use the UserAccessor to get and manipulate a users homepage, where user is of type ConfluenceUser.

userAccessor.getPropertySet(user).setString(UserPreferencesKeys.PROPERTY_USER_SITE_HOMEPAGE,
      MY_SPACE_KEY);

Best regards,
Robert 

[Thomas Berger]

Thanks Robert, you saved my day!