[xwiki-devs] Customizing XWiki to integrate with a Social Networking Site

Hi Devs, I have a requirement to customize XWiki to integrate with Communities in a Social Networking Site that I am developing. Members of a Community should be able to view/edit documents created by other members of the same community but they should not be able to view/edit documents created by members of other communities. Essentially, we want to introduce a 'Community Scope' in XWiki. The number of communities and members grows with time, obviously. I think such a feature is not available out of the box. I am planning to do some customization on the Groups feature of XWiki to achieve this requirement. Here is an outline of the approach. 1. When a new community gets created in the social site, create a new Group of corresponding name in XWiki programatically. (need to know what API to call). 2. When a user joins a community, automatically add the user to the XWiki group associated to that community. 3. When a user creates a new document in the community's XWiki, gives rights to the associated community's Group to that document. The Rights module of XWiki will automatically take care of the authorization when that document is requested by any user. The challenge seems to be identifying the right places in code to make changes for 1 and 3. (#2 I can try to achieve by overriding XWikiUser.isUserInGroup() to plugin my custom implementation). Any pointer in this regard will be greatly appreciated. If there is an alternative approach to what I am planning, that would be great too. Thanks, Rupinder Please do not print this email unless it is absolutely necessary. The information contained in this electronic message and any attachments to this message are intended for the exclusive use of the addressee(s) and may contain proprietary, confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately and destroy all copies of this message and any attachments. WARNING: Computer viruses can be transmitted via email. The recipient should check this email and any attachments for the presence of viruses. The company accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email. www.wipro.com