[opencms-dev] WebUser and WebUser administration
Michael Goodwin
mgoodwin at amadeus.net
Wed Jun 2 18:21:47 CEST 2004
>Ps: Michael Goodwin: Let me know if I can be of any help creating the
>JSP user administration.
Hi Marcus Redeker ;-)
To let you know how I'm getting on. I'm just modifying the user pages only
(all the stuff under 'edit users'), though this is probably most of the
work. I've gotten quite far in changing it. If I don't get caught up with
something else tomorrow then I should get it done then.
- I've not made the pages localisable (this can be put back quite easily
though)
- Its just a collection of jsp's, logic/form processing embedded at the
top. I'm not sure if this is the best organisation. Or if they can be
better integrated into the workspace, but I guess it probably doesn't
matter.
*****For the developers:*******
Question1/, At the moment groups are stored and handled as vectors. eg.
CmsObject.getGroupsForUser(...) returns a Vector. Would it not be more
appropriate to handle them as a Sets? Internally represented as a hash set
perhaps?
Also I noticed some set operations where being performed in loops on
Vectors. It would be simpler and probably quicker also to use the
Collection operations for intersecting and differencing a set/collection.
Just in case this applies elsewhere as well.
Following on from this, there must be another implementation of the logic
which finds which groups a user is indirectly in, but there is no public
method (that I can see). I think there is an argument for this, rather than
calculating the same thing in 2 different places.
Question2/, if I'm writing a helper function, where should it go? For
instance theres one 'changeUsers', which is in the old xmltemplate class
for the user editing template. Which class? Which package?
thanks,
Mike.
From: "Marcus Redeker" <mredeker at web.de>@opencms.org on 01/06/2004 17:44
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Alex,
thanks for the information. I will then just use my "quick hack" to get
us up and running and it seems that Michael Goodwin is trying to port
the administration part to jsp. So we can just use my hack for now and
when version 6.0 is coming the finished JSP user administration should
be able to handle web-user.
--Marcus
Ps: Michael Goodwin: Let me know if I can be of any help creating the
JSP user administration.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: opencms-dev-admin at opencms.org
> [mailto:opencms-dev-admin at opencms.org] On Behalf Of Alexander Kandzior
> Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 8:06 AM
> To: opencms-dev at opencms.org
> Subject: RE: [opencms-dev] WebUser and WebUser administration
>
>
> Marcus,
>
> our current plans are to keep the "webuser" flag on the user
> table, but either drop the additional table in the DB, or
> merge the additional table with the normal users. The
> workplace administration screens for the users will be
> rebuild (in JSP) and allow management of both user types with
> some sort of switching mechanism.
>
> Best Regards,
> Alex.
>
> Alexander Kandzior
> Alkacon Software - The OpenCms Experts
> http://www.alkacon.com
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: opencms-dev-admin at opencms.org
> > [mailto:opencms-dev-admin at opencms.org] On Behalf Of Marcus Redeker
> > Sent: Monday, May 31, 2004 10:52 PM
> > To: opencms-dev at opencms.org
> > Subject: FW: [opencms-dev] WebUser and WebUser administration
> >
> >
> > All,
> >
> > what is the latest status about the webuser issue? I am just
> > in the process of ugrading to the latest CVS head (Version
> > 5.3.5) and will probably convert my webuser backend into the
> > administration view again. Is this something the community is
> > still interested in? What are the plans of the OpenCMS guys
> > in this matter? Are webusers still supported or will they be
> > kicked out soon? I really like the feature because it is easy
> > to use to create user based views of the website without
> > creating 'real' OpenCMS users.
> >
> > Let me know what you think. I can send the modifications to
> > the OpenCMS guys if the webuser remain in the system and
> > other people are using them too.
> >
> > --Marcus
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Lex van Sonderen
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 10:11 PM
> > To: Marcus Redeker
> > Subject: Re: [opencms-dev] WebUser and WebUser administration
> >
> >
> > Hello Marcus,
> >
> > Did you ever make the webuser management available?
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Lex van Sonderen
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Marcus Redeker"
> > To: <opencms-dev at opencms.org>
> > Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2003 8:32 PM
> > Subject: [opencms-dev] WebUser and WebUser administration
> >
> >
> > Hi List,
> >
> > following the discussions here it looks like a lot of people
> > are using the "Webuser" to restrict user from seeing certain
> > pages in OpenCMS. We use the same mechanism to provide some
> > kind of member access to our site for user which has to
> > register with us but which are not supposed to use the
> OpenCMS backen.
> >
> > So we created a login.jsp which is taking a username and
> > password and performs a login as webuser. So this is fine but
> > OpenCMS does not provide any way on maintaing the webuser.
> > You have to implement everything yourself :-( I created one
> > JSP which I can use to add more webuser to the system. But
> > next thing was my boss asking how to delete them and how to
> > update an email address.
> >
> > Well I just did some modifications to OpenCMS an cloned the
> > User Administration screen and the underlying java class to
> > support webuser. This brings me an extra button under the
> > User Administration which is called "Webuser" but offers the
> > same functionality then the user button.
> >
> > For this to work I needed to change some major classes and
> > interfaces in OpenCMS and I was wondering if this is
> > something the community is interested in. If yes I will try
> > to find a way to send it to the OpenCMS guys so that they can
> > create a fix for this.
> >
> > Let me know what you think.
> >
> > --Marcus
> >
> >
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