Re: [xwiki-devs] Creating groups and adding users to them

3 Feb 2009

      Hi,

The best documentation right now is to look at existing authenticators
like XWikiLDAPAuthServiceImpl which create/update users and add/remove
users from groups.

On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Juergen Lorenz Simon <[email protected]> wrote:
...
Hi,
sorry for being thick, but I can't find any documentation at all how
to do this in Java and I still
need some help with this.
In our authenticator I'd like to check if users coming from a certain
angle (i can check on that
through cookies) are in a special group. If they are not, I'd like to
add the to this group.
Furthermore this group needs to asserted of, so I need to be able to
reliably find out if it
does exist and if not, create it.
So far I've been frustrated by failure by attempting to use the
XWikiGroupService to achieve this.
Also I don't seem to be able to find a clean documentation on how
users and groups and done
in XWikI (in java, especially). Is there such documentation?
The following code, to much bewilderment, creates a USER?!
public void checkPortalGroup(XWikiContext context) {
  if (!_portalGroupChecked) {
    try {
       boolean groupExists = false;
       List<String> groupList =
context.getWiki().getGroupService(context).listAllGroups(context);
       for (ListIterator<String> groups = groupList.listIterator();
groups.hasNext() && !groupExists;) {
           groupExists = groups.next().equals(PORTAL_GROUP_NAME);
       }
       if (!groupExists) {
           log.info("Group "+PORTAL_GROUP_NAME+" does not exist and
will be created.");
           BaseCollection portalGroup =
context.getWiki().getGroupClass(context).newObject(context);
           portalGroup.setName(PORTAL_GROUP_NAME);
context.getWiki().getHibernateStore().saveXWikiObject((BaseObject)
portalGroup, context, true);
       }
    } catch (XWikiException e) {
        log.error("Exception while locating or creating group
"+PORTAL_GROUP_NAME+" : "+e.getMessage());
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    _portalGroupChecked=true;
  }
}
I need some serious pointers on how the xwiki objects/classes thing is
supposed to work
for users/groups.
Thanks a lot,
J.L.Simon
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