Extending the org.jboss.portal.identity.User class and jbp_u

[vijaychhipa]

I would like to add a new column to jbp_users table and extend the org.jboss.portal.identity.User class to read this column. Is this doable? recommended?

I have some attributes that do not necessarily belong in the jbp_user_props table

Thanks
Vijay

[soshah]

Vijay-

I would recommend to not modify/extend the core portal database schema.

Because this can lead to messy data migration issues when upgrading to newer versions of portal.


I would recommend creating new tables for your requirements and linking the data with the core portal schema.


And yes, User is an interface so you can hook in your own implementation, or even extend our out-of-the-box implementation

Thanks

[vijaychhipa]

Thank you so much Sohil.

Do you have any examples of code where someone has rolled out their own implementation of the User class. I agree, adding columns to the jbp_users table could be messy.

Thanks
Vijay