Hi, The best documentation right now is to look at existing authenticators like XWikiLDAPAuthServiceImpl which create/update users and add/remove users from groups.
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Juergen Lorenz Simon <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > sorry for being thick, but I can't find any documentation at all how > to do this in Java and I still > need some help with this. > > In our authenticator I'd like to check if users coming from a certain > angle (i can check on that > through cookies) are in a special group. If they are not, I'd like to > add the to this group. > > Furthermore this group needs to asserted of, so I need to be able to > reliably find out if it > does exist and if not, create it. > > So far I've been frustrated by failure by attempting to use the > XWikiGroupService to achieve this. > Also I don't seem to be able to find a clean documentation on how > users and groups and done > in XWikI (in java, especially). Is there such documentation? > > The following code, to much bewilderment, creates a USER?! > > public void checkPortalGroup(XWikiContext context) { > if (!_portalGroupChecked) { > try { > boolean groupExists = false; > List<String> groupList = > context.getWiki().getGroupService(context).listAllGroups(context); > for (ListIterator<String> groups = groupList.listIterator(); > groups.hasNext() && !groupExists;) { > groupExists = groups.next().equals(PORTAL_GROUP_NAME); > } > if (!groupExists) { > log.info("Group "+PORTAL_GROUP_NAME+" does not exist and > will be created."); > BaseCollection portalGroup = > context.getWiki().getGroupClass(context).newObject(context); > portalGroup.setName(PORTAL_GROUP_NAME); > > context.getWiki().getHibernateStore().saveXWikiObject((BaseObject) > portalGroup, context, true); > } > } catch (XWikiException e) { > log.error("Exception while locating or creating group > "+PORTAL_GROUP_NAME+" : "+e.getMessage()); > e.printStackTrace(); > } > _portalGroupChecked=true; > } > } > > I need some serious pointers on how the xwiki objects/classes thing is > supposed to work > for users/groups. > > Thanks a lot, > J.L.Simon > _______________________________________________ > 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
