[xwiki-devs] Rights Management API

Hello, In order to implement the Rights Management desired improvements, we concluded that there is need to write an api to help retrieve: - the local / global users - the local / global groups - the inherited rights for users / groups So after I spoke with Ludovic and Thomas, here is the list of things to be implemented in this api: XWikiUser ============ We have: -> user (string) -> main (boolean) --> setUser, getUser --> isMain, setMain ---------------------------- We will need to do: --> add methods: * getAllActiveUsers [ will read xwiki settings to know what to return, global or local active users; Thomas and I understood that 'active' user means the user after being registered and confirmed the registration through email maybe, following a link to activate or something like this ] * getAllGlobalUsers * getAllLocalUsers * getAllUsers * getMatchingActiveUsers(string MatchText, XWikiContext) * a method to get details for a user, other than the ones returned by getAllUsers (which will return something like Xwiki.LudovicDubost); we might need firstname, lastname, pagename etc. maybe we can use a parameter for the getAllUsers method, called 'withDetails'(boolean) XWikiGroupService (interface) ============================= We have --> listGroupsForUser --> addUserToGroup --> listMemberForGroup --> listAllGroups ------------------------- We will need to do: --> add methods: * getAllActiveGroups * getAllGlobalGroups * getAllLocalGroups [ this is currently done by 'listAllGroups' ] * listMatchingActiveGroups(string MatchText, XWikiContext) [ this will help me for the ajax-suggest feature; will return the groups with the name matching a certain string ] XWikiRightService (interface) ============================== We have: --> checkAccess --> hasAccessLevel --> hasProgrammingRights (2 methods) --> hasAdminRights --> listAllLevels ------------------------------- We will need to do: --> add methods: * to find inherited rights * and maybe other things, I'm not very sure yet I hope I understood right. Thomas will try to draw some schemes and I'll clarify some of the questions that are left, then. Ps. I posted this mail yesterday but only today I found out that devs list moved to xwiki.org. Sorry about the delay.