Re: [gatein-dev] Username restrictions?

I'm available here to discuss and still listening your voice :) we can see that the most restriction is about how to allow our users to be able to customize rules of a valid username ( the others are not hard to achieve indeed ). To get this done, I think the approach of using a kernel service for injecting validator seems to be acceptable. it helps users easier to change the rules without modifying anything in war. It should not be risky as we are just trying to fix problems and make it more flexible. I'm also going to document the current rules of username for reference ( tomorrow i think ) On 31 January 2012 17:26, Boleslaw Dawidowicz < boleslaw.dawidowicz(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > > On Jan 30, 2012, at 12:53 PM, Trong Tran wrote: > > > On 27 January 2012 00:58, Christophe Laprun <claprun(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I'm currently working on https://issues.jboss.org/browse/GTNPORTAL-1673and I'm quite puzzled by the different rules that are in place to validate >> usernames. Not only are these rules not consistent across fields which >> display usernames (some are validated using UsernameValidator, some are >> validated using ExpressionValidator) but I'm also confused about the need >> to validate read-only fields (which presumably will only display valid >> information since it doesn't come from the user, right?). What are the >> rules for a valid username and where are they documented? What are the >> restrictions and why are they in place? >> > > Defining the rules for a valid username is a long story, they have been > changed/updated many times according to users need. They are also not fixed > and documented so far. Until now, we still have requests related to this > like : to support case-sensitive, or possible to add username under an > email address. > > Anyway the rules should be consistent every places and no need to > validate read-only fields, they are considered as issues > > > I understand that due to the long story of changes it is rather hard to > come up with consistent list. However we need to decide on some plan to fix > the situation and agree if it is possible and safe to do it now. > > Trong, who do you think should be involved to get more clear picture > about reasons for current restrictions? If we decide that it is too risky > to loosen them now thats also quite valid outcome. > > Bolek > > -- Tran The Trong eXo Platform SEA