Hi,
findUser is not par of public Api but XWikiAuthServiceImpl internal
tool. Evelina just speak about what needed for velocity/ajax access to
new rights system features.
2007/9/14, Erin Schnabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Is findUser being preserved? I didn't see it in the list.. (unless
> it's replaced by getUser?)
>
> On 9/14/07, Ludovic Dubost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > This looks good.. I'm wondering wether the API should be in
> > XWikiGroupService or if we should add a new XWikiUserService api.
> > Concerning retrieving inherited rights we could have this API
> >
> > Map getInheritedRight(String SpaceOrPage, List rights ("view", "edit",
> > "comment", ..))
> >
> > It would return a Map of Lists { "view" : { "XWiki.XWikiAllGroup",
> > "XWiki.XWikiGuest" }, "edit": {"XWiki.AdminGrgoup",
> > "XWiki.LudovicDubost" } }
> > If the list is empty at the parent level it will need to go at the upper
> > parent level (until it hits the global level).
> >
> > Ludovic
> >
> > Evelyne24 a écrit :
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > In order to implement the Rights Management desired improvements, we
> > > concluded that there is need to write an api to help retrieve:
> > > - the local / global users
> > > - the local / global groups
> > > - the inherited rights for users / groups
> > >
> > > So after I spoke with Ludovic and Thomas, here is the list of things to
> > > be implemented in this api:
> > >
> > > XWikiUser
> > > ============
> > > We have:
> > > -> user (string)
> > > -> main (boolean)
> > > --> setUser, getUser
> > > --> isMain, setMain
> > > ----------------------------
> > > We will need to do:
> > > --> add methods:
> > > * getAllActiveUsers [ will read xwiki settings to know what to return,
> > > global or local active users; Thomas and I understood that 'active' user
> > > means the user after being registered and confirmed the registration
> > > through email maybe, following a link to activate or something like this ]
> > > * getAllGlobalUsers
> > > * getAllLocalUsers
> > > * getAllUsers
> > > * getMatchingActiveUsers(string MatchText, XWikiContext)
> > > * a method to get details for a user, other than the ones returned by
> > > getAllUsers (which will return something like Xwiki.LudovicDubost); we
> > > might need firstname, lastname, pagename etc. maybe we can use a
> > > parameter for the getAllUsers method, called 'withDetails'(boolean)
> > >
> > > XWikiGroupService (interface)
> > > =============================
> > > We have
> > > --> listGroupsForUser
> > > --> addUserToGroup
> > > --> listMemberForGroup
> > > --> listAllGroups
> > > -------------------------
> > > We will need to do:
> > > --> add methods:
> > > * getAllActiveGroups
> > > * getAllGlobalGroups
> > > * getAllLocalGroups [ this is currently done by 'listAllGroups' ]
> > > * listMatchingActiveGroups(string MatchText, XWikiContext) [ this will
> > > help me for the ajax-suggest feature; will return the groups with the
> > > name matching a certain string ]
> > >
> > > XWikiRightService (interface)
> > > ==============================
> > > We have:
> > > --> checkAccess
> > > --> hasAccessLevel
> > > --> hasProgrammingRights (2 methods)
> > > --> hasAdminRights
> > > --> listAllLevels
> > > -------------------------------
> > > We will need to do:
> > > --> add methods:
> > > * to find inherited rights
> > > * and maybe other things, I'm not very sure yet
> > >
> > > I hope I understood right. Thomas will try to draw some schemes and I'll
> > > clarify some of the questions that are left, then.
> > >
> > > Ps. I posted this mail yesterday but only today I found out that devs
> > > list moved to xwiki.org. Sorry about the delay.
> > >
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> > >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Ludovic Dubost
> > Blog: http://www.ludovic.org/blog/
> > XWiki: http://www.xwiki.com
> > Skype: ldubost GTalk: ldubost
> > AIM: nvludo Yahoo: ludovic
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