Renaming docs

There have been a number of questions about renaming documents in XWiki, and the usual answer has been that you can't. There is, however, a method, com.xpn.xwiki.doc.XWikiDocument.rename(String, XWikiContext) that purports to do exactly this, and from the source, it looks like it does the correct stuff, cloning itself, updating any objects it contains to refer to the new document name, etc. The only problem with this method is that, in my case, I haven't been able to make it work. In one case, it returned, as advertised, a Document with the new name to my page, but the document remained intact under its original name and not under the new one. Since that time, after which I restarted the server, it only returns null. Due to problems with CGLIB-generated class files, I can't set a breakpoint to find out why (anyone know the magic to make CGLIB create line-number entries?). A few details: the actual problem I'm trying to solve is scripting the change of existing login IDs to integrate with an enterprise-wide authentication service, which requires a company-standard naming scheme. My change to the security scheme was limited to subclassing XWikiAuthServiceImpl and overriding only the default constructor (to instantiate the auth service client library) and the checkPassword method. Since XWiki's default implementation of a user ID is the user's profile, named XWiki.<username>, that will entail changing a document name and all wiki references to it. My first plan was a transitional scheme that involved using XWiki.copyDocument() to create the new document, leaving the original document in place for the default XWikiAuthServiceImpl to use, replacing its content with a notice of the change and removing the user's edit right, then removing it and changing all wiki references to it the first time they log in under the new scheme. Alternatively, using XWiki.createUser to create the new user was a possibility, but it looks messier from the standpoint of migrating the original user's profile page. So, a couple of questions, for discussion and/or authoritative answer: - Does XWikiDocument.rename() actually work as advertised? I am aware of the need for the "programming" right on the original document to use the necessary methods (on the space or the wiki doesn't do it), and have made sure that I have them by checking with checkProgrammingRights. - What's the best way to change an existing user's login ID without disruption beyond having to use the new name? - XWiki provides reasonable ways to find all of the kinds of document references that I can think of, including object string fields(especially group membership and rights objects) and wiki links; are there any others I will need to consider? - Does the XWikiAdmin identity (or the XWikiAdminGroup, for that matter) have any implementation outside the database? I notice that XWikiAdmin's profile document is not named XWikiAdmin, so something is not the same about it. The reason I need to know is that it won't work under the new authentication service's naming rules, and I want to eliminate it for other reasons too (mostly that it's a shared ID) and replace all of its rights entries with a group entry for XWikiAdminGroup. Primarily, I need to know whether there's any reason this strategy won't work, because re-implementing it would constitute an access backdoor. Brian M. Thomas - Senior Technical Architect AT&T Services, Inc. One SBC Center, Room 24D3 St. Louis, MO 63101 314 235 3141