On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 09:34, Ludovic Dubost <[email protected]> wrote:

> I was also +1 on this..
>
> However it would be nice to provide a script to detect any data that might
> have been using the feature, and put it in the release notes
>

Things is that this feature was pretty much not usable anyway since not all
the places manipulating groups was using it, in fact it was only applied by
XWikiGroupServiceImpl#listMemberForGroup.



>
> Ludovic
>
> Le 09/05/10 12:44, Thomas Mortagne a écrit :
>
>  3 +1
>>
>> Committed in trunk
>>
>> On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 18:36, Thomas Mortagne<[email protected]
>> >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.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Thomas Mortagne
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
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>
>
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> Ludovic Dubost
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>


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