Re: [Ejbca-develop] UserDataVOWS role in certificateRequest() web service call

[Tomas G. <to...@pr...>]

> So does that mean the certificateRequest() call marks the user NEW each
> time we make the call?


Correct. It's inside a transaction so not visible from the outside.

You can read about it in the WS API documentation.
https://www.ejbca.org/docs/ws/org/ejbca/core/protocol/ws/client/gen/EjbcaWS.html

Regards,
Tomas
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On 2017-01-25 06:27, Nikita Bedmutha wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> When I tried the SOAP based web service call 'certificateRequest'
> through SOAPUI and java code in eclipse to sign a CSR,
> we have to send user data(end-entity) i.e. UserDataVOWS along with the
> caName and CSR. This call returns a certificate
> signed by the requested CA. It seems that, a new end entity(user) is
> created on the fly during this call and then certificate
> is signed for it and returned.
> Now if we make repetitive same calls, without changing user, certificate
> is generated each time.
> When observed in database, the UserData has that user entry in it, and
> seems that user data row is overwritten
> each time we make the call. Also the count of certificates issued to
> this user increases.
> 
> Now when I try to achieve the same thing using web GUI of EJBCA, hitting
> the request for Create Certificate from
> CSR for the same user used using SOAPUI, it returns :
> 'Wrong user status! To generate a certificate for a user the user must
> have status New, Failed or In process.'
> 
> When checked, the user has status 40 (GENERATED), and hence it failed.
> 
> So does that mean the certificateRequest() call marks the user NEW each
> time we make the call?
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Nikita Bedmutha
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