Adding a user with his password

["QO) <rsanchez@qualityobjects.com>" <Roberto>]

Hi,

One question:
If the interface "User" hasn't a method to get the user's password, How can I add to my repository a new user with the correct password ? The interface UsersRepository has the method: "boolean addUser(User user)", the only reference to the user's data is an interface "User".

In other implementations of UserRepository, it is done a cast to "DefaultUser" to use the method "getHashedPassword()"

For example in org.apache.james.userrepository.DefaultUsersJdbcRepository#setUserForInsertStatement(User user, ...)
        DefaultUser defUser = (DefaultUser)user;
  ...
        userInsert.setString(3, defUser.getHashedPassword());
        
What do you think about to include the method "getHashedPassword()" in "User" interface ? 
Is it correct to do a cast to a class from an interface ? I think this generate a dependency between RemoteManager and Users Repositories then the interface "UserRepository" itsn't sufficient to determine the "contract" for the Users repository implementation. Is that correct ?

Roberto.