I don't see a clear question, so I'm going to guess it:

Should the "member" property of XWikiGroups be single select (only one 
value per object), and fix the code in XWikiGroupServiceImpl accordingly?

+1

On 05/07/2010 06:36 PM, Thomas Mortagne wrote:
> Hi devs,
>
> I recently created http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-5149, this
> issue is due to the fact that XWikiGroupServiceImpl#listMemberForGroup
> is splitting the value of the "member" field based on white space and
> comma.
>
> That does not make sense IMO and makes impossible to have a user with
> a white space (and comma which is less common) in its name for a very
> bad reason. Also the name of the field is "member" and not "members".
> Last reason is that i think in all other places we don't take this
> value as a list.
>
> Note that this bug is mainly a pain for authenticators where you have
> to remember the real name of the user and have some collision handling
> to support use case users "somename" and "some name" coming for an
> external authentication server in which theses are two different
> users.
>
> WDYT ?
>
> Here is my +1.
>


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Sergiu Dumitriu
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