Hi, 2007/9/14, Evelyne24 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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) >
I think It will be better, as Ludovic suggested, to create a XWikiUserService interface for theses methods as it manipulate multi users and XWikiUser represent just one user (and is not an interface). > 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. > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > -- Thomas Mortagne _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
