Hi Timothéé

Am 16.01.2013 um 11:48 schrieb Timothée Maret:

> 
> 2013/1/16 Felix Meschberger <[email protected]>
> 
>> On a related note: Currently it is only possible to manage (create, read,
>> update, delete) through the Web Console. Would it make sense to define a
>> TenantManager service (which is not the same as the TenantProvider: While
>> the TenantProvider can be used by any one, the TenantManageris intended for
>> us by administrators).
>> 
>> It makes totally sense to me.

You might give it a try ?

I created SLING-2710 [1] to track this. Maybe the API should be enhanced by the 
methods taking a ResourceResolver to access the persistence for write-back ? 

Regards
Felix

[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SLING-2710

> 
>> Regards
>> Felix
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Am 16.01.2013 um 10:29 schrieb Timothée Maret:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I have been using the sling tenant recently and although the tenant path
>>> matcher configuration is
>>> flexbile, the user to tenant resolution mechanism enforces to organize
>> the
>>> users following a fixed
>>> structure where all the users must be under the tenantId root.
>>> 
>>> As an example:
>>> 
>>> /home/users/<tenantId>/bob
>>>                     /us/alice
>>>                     /fr/charles
>>> 
>>> This is not flexible enough, especially with enabling tenant support on
>>> legacy system where users
>>> location is already set.
>>> 
>>> I think there two approaches to improve that
>>> 
>>> * Based on group
>>> 
>>> Instead of being applied against the user home path, the regex could be
>>> applied against all the
>>> groups the user is a member of. Each tenant would be assigned to a
>> default
>>> group and the first
>>> tenant.default-group/user.group match would define the user as being part
>>> of the group.
>>> 
>>> This offers the flexibility to store the user anywhere. However, the
>>> resolution would be undeterministic
>>> in cases where the user has more than one tenant group assigned.
>> Moreover,
>>> this would interleave
>>> group and tenant support which sounds like a limitation in comparison to
>>> the path based approach.
>>> 
>>> * Based on property set in user home
>>> 
>>> Each user part of a tenant would have a property "tenantId" set which
>> would
>>> map it to the tenant.
>>> This implies a bit more maintenance but would offer the flexibility to
>>> store users anywhere as well
>>> as a separation between group and tenants.
>>> 
>>> To me, the property based is clearly the best way to go as it offers most
>>> flexibility in therms of
>>> group and user organization. Moreover, it could be implemented as an
>>> extension of the current design.
>>> Basically, instead of only trying to match against the user home path,
>> the
>>> TenantAdapterFactory could
>>> also look for the userHome + "tenantId" property path. If the property is
>>> present, then the value
>>> could be appended to the user home path and tried to be matched against
>> the
>>> regex.
>>> 
>>> wdyt ?
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> 
>>> Timothee.
>> 
>> Regards,
> 
> Timothee.

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