On 03/04/2014 02:12 PM, Daniel Ebanja wrote:

Hallo xwiki-users, i have a webapplication from which i direct users to XWIKI through a link. The idea i have now is using basic Authentication: http:// username:[email protected]/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome?basicauth=1

The problem here is i am using username:OID in the url above. I will like to customize the basic authentication such that i can use the OID to get userpassword from a database. Register the user in xwiki if it's the first time getting to xwiki and login if user already exist.

The two apps are running in tomcat and on debian OS.

I tried to write a java class(with eclipse on windows) extending the XWikiAuthServiceImpl class. Eclipse did not recognise the packages.Could i get the packages from somewhere? Is there a way to test an implementation?

Yes, you can ;) The best way (IMO) to do that is to add XWiki as a maven dependency, i.e. adding to your pom.xml something like: <dependencies> <dependency> <!-- XWikiAuthServiceImpl is in this package --> <groupId>org.xwiki.platform</groupId> <artifactId>xwiki-platform-oldcore</artifactId> <version>5.4.2</version> </dependency> [...] But you probably did not set up your project with maven, because all you want is to write that single auth-class ... so for a "quick and dirty" approach ... what you can do is: - get the "standalone" distribution, - unzip it somewhere - inside the unzipped xwiki-enterprise-jetty-hsqldb-x.y.z add all files in the webapps/xwiki/WEB-INF/lib to the eclipse classpath (just add all for simplicity, as we talk about "quick and dirty" ;) Afterwards you should be able to compile your custom XWikiAuthServiceImpl class, and place the generated class-file in the WEB-INF/classes folder