Allow email addressed to be used for user accounts by making hierarchical
interpretation of principal names optional
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Key: JS2-527
URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JS2-527
Project: Jetspeed 2
Type: Improvement
Components: Security
Versions: 2.1, 2.1-dev
Reporter: Ate Douma
Assigned to: Ate Douma
Fix For: 2.1, 2.1-dev
By default, Jetspeed supports hierarchical names for role, group and user
principal names and uses the '.' (dot) as a path or level separator.
But right now (if ever) Jetspeed own admin portlets don't really use or support
hierarchical principal definitions, even if the security model and component
can handle it.
Furthermore, and this is a major problem for some, because of this email
addresses can't be used for user account names.
By making hierarchical interpretation of principal (user,role and group) names
optional, this now becomes possible.
As we don't use factories for instantiating the principal classes, and I didn't
want to cause a lot of api changes, I've opted for
simple static methods on each principal type class through which this can be
turned off.
And by using Spring MethodInvokingFactoryBeans this can easily be configured
through spring assembly.
I'll add a new spring assembly file doing just that for all three principal
classes but then commented out so by default everything stays the same.
One example from this assembly file (hierarchical-principal-names.xml):
<bean
class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.MethodInvokingFactoryBean">
<property name="staticMethod">
<value>org.apache.jetspeed.security.impl.UserPrincipalImpl.useHierarchicalNames</value>
</property>
<property name="arguments">
<value>false</value>
</property>
</bean>
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