Well, I have some good news and some bad news. The good news is that I just burrowed ahead and did manage to [files attached]: a. Add b. Retrieve c. Delete a Page via the implementation that is available in the most-current release of XWiki. The bad news is: a. The delete function was not, in fact completely engineered/tested, but the work-around was trivial, so I just fixed it in my local version. b. The methods that are designed for solving your problem, however: i. getUser, ii. addUser, iii. addGroup, iv. getUserGroups, v. addUserToGroup have not yet been coded. So, in order to have the benefits of an xmlrpc-based implementation, you'll need to get the development team to complete the Confluence emulation code. Since they already have a zillion items in their backlog, you might find a quicker solution by pulling the pieces out of Mr. Lauriere's 'extended profiles', and using that as the basis for your import. Terry P.S. I'm still very willing to go the 'extra mile' to build the attached into a capability for you [and others], but grepping through the code to discover how the API handles the necessary Hibernate mapping to the XWiki-proprietary database schema is not exactly the way my granddaughter expects me to entertain her during the dog days of her summer vacation. You might spend some time looking at what the implementation of 'Add User', 'Add Group' and 'Add User To Group' functionality appears to be, and maybe it will prove to be just a few hours of code and test to insert those method invocations into the corresponding methods of com.xpn.xwiki.xmlrpc.ConfluenceRpcHandler. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Dlug" <[email protected]> To: "tcorbet" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2005 11:15 Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] Creating users as a batch I'm not particularly in a rush, I'm actually on vacation this week. I'm very interested in having an XML-RPC type interface to do this and other things. I'm going to have more needs along these lines as time progresses, we're rolling out the wiki across our entire organization. Please let me know if I can help in any way, I do have a good deal of experience in developing XML-RPC interfaces, though no experience with confluence. Thanks, Paul On 7/16/05, tcorbet <[email protected]> wrote:

Paul,

You can, no doubt, accomplish your task of creating 150 accounts through the XWiki application's U/I than I can design/write/test and document a solution. But, if you can tolerate probably four or five days of delay, I would be willing to create a utility for batch loading of users.

From what I have been able to find in the way of documentation of XWiki's support of the Confluence-defined, Wiki-related xmlrpc methods, I think I could cobble together the necessary Java code. Probably the correct input would be an XML Schema .xsd file defining the User/Group attributes with use of a validating SAX parser so that you would get some helpful error messages when the inevitable incorrect input sneaks into your .xml input file.

Of course, the way software requirements just keep expanding, I would anticipate that you really want the inverse utility as well -- a dump into .xml of the currently-registered users. I am assuming that there is some other 'system of record' where your users are defined, so the 'dump-from-XWiki' output would give you a text file that could just be 'diffed' against whatever other list of users exists for a quick check on the sanity of things.

I have no need for these utilities for my own modest sub-system, but if they would benefit you and others, I would be willing to undertake the development as I do need to write similar code for import-export of some other XWiki objects via xmlrpc in any case.

----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Dlug" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, July 16, 2005 07:38 Subject: [xwiki-users] Creating users as a batch

Is there any way to create users in a batch? I'm facing the need to create about 150 accounts at once, we have registration turned off because we want control of the users and we want to choose their WikiName's for them.

It would also be necessary to put them in groups as a batch also. Is this problem as simple as just inserting rows directly into the database or are there other things I need to take into consideration?

Thanks, Paul

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