Re: [xwiki-devs] XWikiContext#getUser and not logged in users

Hi devs, I'm currently working on http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-6103 which has two aspects: 1) stored the user as a DocumentReference in the context so that we stop loosing the user all the time when switching databases 2) provide a DocumentReference oriented API to deal with the current user For 2 I would like to propose some change in the way to see not logged in user: I would like to make getUserReference return null when there is no user logged in instead of some DocumentReference containing <currentwiki>:XWiki.XWikiGuest. I understand that when dealing with string "XWikiGuest" hack appear but null when there is actually no context user makes much more sense at Java level IMO. Make safer to distinguish between no logged in user and logged in user and you don't really care what has been chosen as virtual name for not logged in users at this level. That will not impact anything which already exist and is just for code that will use the new API of course but I think it deserve some debate first since that's another way to see things and well it's an API.