[opencms-dev] Pluggable User Modules

[Michael Goodwin]

>> *Additional user info is stored as a serialized blob in the
>> user table. Null values cannot be read in from the database.
>> Due to trying to aggregate all users together into one
>> database, a number of fields will not apply to most users and
>> I think it would be good to be able to leave them null
>> (especially for larger fields).
>
>I don't fully understand what you want here. Can you post me some code
>sample (better patch) with the required changes?

Erm, infact its not really worth changing. Additional user fields are
stored as a serialized Hashtable. I was suggesting that it could be left as
a null value and then the Hashtable created on demand.
(Ironically I was probably trying to optimize prematurely here)

thanks,

Mike.