[jira] [Created] (OAK-5118) SynchronizationMBean: Deprecate syncAllUsers and syncAllExternalUsers

["angela (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

angela created OAK-5118:
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             Summary: SynchronizationMBean: Deprecate syncAllUsers and syncAllExternalUsers
                 Key: OAK-5118
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OAK-5118
             Project: Jackrabbit Oak
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: auth-external
            Reporter: angela


The following 2 methods defined by {{SyncronizationMBean}} have been introduced with a warning about being potentially expensive [0]:

- {{syncAllUsers}}
- {{syncAllExternalUsers}}

To me defining API that is designed with scalability issues in mind, looks like a troublesome pattern. As far as I understood from the history associated with this, I assume that it was introduced to allow for upfront sync to workaround other issues faced by sync-upon-login.

With the latest improvements and features introduced wrt to the user-sync, I think we should move forward deprecating the troublesome methods for the upcoming 1.6 release.



[0] Quote from Javadoc: "Note that this can be an expensive operation since all potential users need to be examined."



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