Change user's display name

[sri.sankaran]

JIRA version: 4.4.3

How does one change the the display name of a User from within a custom service? Javadocs lead me to CrowdService.updateUser. However that method requires a User object and the User object doesn't provide any setters.

Sri

[Raju · Accepted solution]

Sri,

You need to use com.atlassian.crowd.model.user.UserTemplate

Here is the example code: I'm assuming you already injected crowdService.

UserManager userManager = ComponentAccessor.getUserManager();
com.atlassian.crowd.embedded.api.User user = userManager.getUser("admin");

UserTemplate userTemplate = new UserTemplate(user);
userTemplate.setDisplayName("A.D. Mean");


  try
  {
    crowdService.updateUser(userTemplate);
  }
   catch (Exception e)
  {
    //Handle exceptions properly.
     e.printStackTrace();
  }

Hope this helps,

Raju

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]]

Maybe use getUser method to get the User object given the name?