Using my extended JetspeedUser

[Pierre Henry <ph...@proconcept.ch>]

Hi all,

I am trying to use an existing table instead of the default TURBINE_USER
table to store my user data.

I already went through the following steps successfuly :


1. Modify the torque schema.xml :

I changed the name of the table user to MYUSER, but I specified
JavaName=TurbineUser, so that the generated classes keeps the same name.
Added the 'title' field.

I rebuilt to generate the peer classes.


2. Create a MyUser interface and a MyUserImpl class

MyUser extends JetspeedUser and add the setTitle and getTitle methods, and
the static final String TITLE = "title".

MyUserImpl extends BaseJetspeedUser and implements MyUser :

public class MyUserImpl extends BaseJetspeedUser implements MyUser {
    public String getTitle(){
       return (String) getPerm(MyUser.TITLE);
    }
    public void setTitle(String title){
        setPerm(PcsUser.TITLE, title);
    }
}


2. Modifiy the JetspeedSecurity.* files

services.JetspeedSecurity.user.class=myclasses.portal.om.security.MyUserImpl

Wherever this parameter appears.

3. Now I wanted to test this new field by modifying MyHelloUserPortlet
(portlet from tutorial).

I added the code :

....
MyUser user = (MyUser)runData.getUser();
String title = user.getTitle();
if(title==null)
    {
      user.setTitle(title="Mister");
    }
....

This worked fine, except that the new title value (by now all my title
fields are empty) was not saved in the db.

So i added the following line to try and force the saving

    try
    {
      JetspeedUserManagement.saveUser(user);
    }
    catch(Exception e)
    {
      System.out.println("Problem by saving user : "+e.toString());
    }

But now the portlet doesn't display anymore and here is the output :

Problem by saving user :
org.apache.jetspeed.services.security.UserException: Failed to save user
object : No changes to save

Obviously, the saveUser method sees the user as a BaseJetspeedUser and not
as a MyUser, and therefore can't see the changes.

What should I change ?
Should I extend the TurbineUserManagement to cast the user to MyUser ? Or
did I miss something ?

Any help appreciated !

I hope the first 3 steps can help...

Pierre