[Building Sakai] Request for review, SAK-6792, ability to search external users

[Steve Swinsburg]

Hi Dave,

Thanks for the comments, replies inline:
> - What are the search criteria?  Are they independent of the underlying implementation?

The same as the normal UDS.searchUsers method, a string of text that will match on a user's eid, firstname, lastname or email address.

> - Will it be easy to know to turn off the capability in the UI?  I'm sure the implementation can be turned off, but it wouldn't be very attractive to have a "search external users" display in the UI that doesn't really connect to anything.

There will be no UI, just the backend for retrieving the information. People can choose to implement it as they see fit. 

One use of this will be Profile2, so we can search externally provided users, if a provider is configured.

cheers,
Steve



On 30/03/2010, at 11:54 PM, David Haines wrote:

> I have a couple of comments.
> 
> - What are the search criteria?  Are they independent of the underlying implementation?
> - Will it be easy to know to turn off the capability in the UI?  I'm sure the implementation can be turned off, but it wouldn't be very attractive to have a "search external users" display in the UI that doesn't really connect to anything.
> 
> - Dave
> 
> David Haines
> CTools Developer
> Digital Media Commons
> University of Michigan 
> dlhaines at umich.edu
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Mar 30, 2010, at 8:29 AM, Steve Swinsburg wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I have just completed some work on a long outstanding feature request, which adds some important and useful functionality to the UserDirectoryService API. http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-6792 adds the ability to search externally provided users (ie from LDAP). We, the maintenance team, have discussed this and are seeking your input on this issue since it affects a core service. 
>> 
>> There are two parts: 
>> 
>> The first is a modification to the UserDirectoryService. A new optional interface is added, ExternalUserSearchUDP, containing a single method that a Provider can implement, searchUsers(String criteria, int first, int last). A new method is then added to the UserDirectoryService to surface this new functionality, UserDirectoryService.searchExternalUsers(String criteria, int first, int last).
>> 
>> This phase of the work is complete and a patch is attached to http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-6792 for review. This is completely backwards compatible since the interface is optional and no existing methods have been touched.
>> 
>> The second will be a modification to the JLDAP Provider to implement this new interface and actually do the work of searching for the users in the external directory. This work is about to begin, but relies on the first section above. Other providers can be modified to follow suit if desired.
>> 
>> Comments and feedback appreciated.
>> 
>> thanks,
>> Steve
>> 
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