Hi Sumedha, Please see my comments inline.
On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 9:04 AM, Sumedha Kodithuwakku <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi all, > > In the new cloud user model we have two attributes (Company Display Name > and Company ID) related to the organization which can be set by the user > when adding the organization. The company ID maps to the tenant domain in a > tenant. > > There is a suggestion to remove the '.ext' part from the Company ID and > make it just a unique character sequence (i.e remove '*.com*' from '*abc.com > <http://abc.com>*' and just use '*abc*'). However since tenant domain > must be having a '.ext' this is not possible currently. > > AFAIU there are two possible solutions for this; > > 1. Use the tenant domain as it is in the back end and do the removal > of the '.ext' in the front end. IMHO this is more error prone and will be > difficult to maintain and will require lot of changes in the front end too. > 2. Remove the validation done for the '.ext' when creating the tenant. > AFAIK the validation for the '.ext' in tenant domain only happens when the > tenant is being created. After that we will take the tenant domain as what > ever behind the '@' symbol of a user name and use it. IMHO this is much > cleaner and easy to maintain than the first approach. However we will have > to modify the tenant.mgt component [1] to do this (or extend it). > > You are correct in saying that at the platform level it is just a string and validation is only in the UI. The consistency of the platform won't be damaged at the platform if you remove it. (Even this validation was added much later and depends on a property in a config file) +1 for removing the validation. thanks, dimuthu > > > Suggestions/ thoughts are welcome..! > > [1] > https://svn.wso2.org/repos/wso2/carbon/platform/branches/turing/components/stratos/tenant-mgt/org.wso2.carbon.tenant.mgt/ > > Thanks > SumedhaS > -- > *Sumedha Kodithuwakku* > Software Engineer > WSO2 Inc. : wso2.com > lean . enterprise . middleware > > Email: [email protected]; Mobile: +94 71 808 1124 > Blog: http://sumedhask.blogspot.com/ > > -- Dimuthu Leelarathne Architect & Product Lead of App Factory WSO2, Inc. (http://wso2.com) email: [email protected] Mobile : 0773661935 Lean . Enterprise . Middleware
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