Not sure if it's better to start a new thread or just extend this one, but:
Geert Bevin wrote:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.java.rife.user/2767/focus=2767
...
Emmanuel also gives a good summary of how to use database
authentication, with clear code snippets.
I am probably just slow, but it took me several readings of his code
before I even figured out what it was for: he was demonstrating how to
create a user and attach it to additional account data, not how to use
an existing database of users. Once I figured that out, I took his
example, expanded on it, and added lots of explanation and code comments
which I hope are correct; the result is here:
http://rifers.org/wiki/display/RIFE/GuideCookbookAuthentication
(The new sections are "Creating users" and "Managing additional user
data".) I also added a link to that page from the authentication chapter
of the user's guide, since when I was first reading the guide it kind of
felt like database authentication was mentioned in passing then
forgotten and at first I didn't even notice it stuffed down in an
appendix at the end of the guide.
If someone can give the new material a quick read and make sure it's
accurate and that my adaptation of Emmanuel's code is the right way to
do things, that'd be super. In particular I tried and failed to make the
Account object use the RIFE user ID as its identifier, which I feel is
the right data model since it's a one-to-one mapping. If there's some
way to do foreign primary keys I wouldn't mind knowing, but I couldn't
get RIFE to stop trying to assign a fresh ID value to my Account object.
I also didn't see a more elegant way to do the many-to-one constraint
between Account and RoleUser, but it's entirely possible there is one
I'm not aware of. At the very least I imagine there's a more elegant way
to look up the RoleUser table name.
-Steve
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