[xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Introduce a new API method in order to be able to check an user password

Hello all, I've been working on some improvements on user changing password (see XWiki-6882). In particular, I tried to make mandatory, for an user wanting to change his password, to submit also his current password, so that I could check it. The problem is that there is no way to make this check through velocity. I tried to use some groovy instead, but it breaks the functional tests. So I need to introduce a new method "checkPassword" accessible from velocity scripts. The question is, where should I implement it ? There are two possibilities 1) Wrote a new component 2) Add this method in an existing API. I don't really like 1), as I feel it would be strange to introduce a new service with only one method. In the meanwhile, for 2), I don't really know in which API this method could fit. Sergiu told me that I could perhaps put it in com.xpn.xwiki.plugin.rightsmanager.RightsManagerPluginApi, but that it wasn't really good either. Any ideas ? Cheers, Thomas