9 May
2011
9 May
'11
6:54 p.m.
http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Design/UserModuleRequirements
On 05/02/2011 01:00 AM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:
I needed something to represent users and groups in
the new rights
management implementation, so I just committed a different proposal for
users and user management.
My implementation is centered on individual users, not on their
management, so I removed the count and retrieve all users methods.
So, the core is the User interface, which represents an (abstract) user.
IMO, this interface allows to have users coming from different
authentication systems, not just wiki users with a profile object in a
document. There are two methods to get to the underlying entity,
getProfileDocument and getProfileURI, both optional. It has a generic
getAttribute method, which allows to retrieve all/any information
associated with a user, with no other metadata important enough to have
its own method, except the user full name, which I considered to be one
of the identifiers, not metadata.
The UserManager allows, for the moment, just to retrieve a user from an
identifier.
The default user manager is actually a meta manager, which asks other
UserManager implementations to resolve an identifier into a proper user
object, allowing to have a mix of users coming from different sources in
the wiki.
I kept in the implementation a way to achieve what JV needed in the
first place, a way to force users to be defined in local wikis, or only
in the global wiki, or just in a specific wiki (for example, all users
are to be defined in the "users" wiki, so they are global, but they
can't accidentally get Programming Rights).
I added a few remarks and questions on the commit (comments welcome) at
https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/34a0f83c354ac68eca75c7141133…
Note that this is just a PoC, waiting for validation that it's the right
approach.
I have something similar in mind for Groups as well, but I'd like to
keep groups and users separate (two different modules), with no
connection from users to groups, only the other way around.
On 08/04/2010 11:30 AM, Jean-Vincent Drean wrote:
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Sergiu Dumitriu
http://purl.org/net/sergiu/
Hi Devs,
I'd like to introduce a new configuration property that would define
at which level users should be handled in a farm.
See the proposition about the new entry in xwiki.properties, it should
be self-explanatory:
--------------------------------8<--------------------------------
#-# [Since 2.5M1]
#-# Define at which level users and groups should be handled in the
farm. Available modes:
#-#
#-# mixed (default):
#-# - user registration available in the main wiki and local wikis
#-# - users from the current wiki and the main wiki will be displayed
in the rights interface and user suggests
#-# - user administration is present in all the wikis
#-#
#-# local:
#-# - user registration available in the main wiki and local wikis
#-# - only users from the current wiki will be displayed in the rights
interface and user suggests
#-# - user administration is present in all the wikis
#-#
#-# global:
#-# - user registration available in the main wiki only, the register
link in local wikis will point to the main wiki
#-# - only users from the main wiki will be displayed in the rights
interface and user suggests
#-# - user administration is present in the main wiki only
core.virtual.users=mixed
-------------------------------->8--------------------------------
More details are available here:
http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Design/UsersModule
WDYT ?