IDM management console api issues

[smurfs.smurfsturf.googlemail.com]

Hiya,

I am currently building the administration pages for managing users, groups, roles etc., in a manner similar to the idmconsole example, but have hit a few snags with the api provided by the org.jboss.seam.security.management.action package.

An inspection of the various class methods suggests the functionality is not complete. For example, UserSearch does not assign a value to the UserDAO enabled property; any attempt to modify the username in UserAction fails because of the way the user record is retrieved in saveExistingUser(), and the properties firstname, lastname, etc., are not implemented as identity attributes.

It seems the coding of this api was started and not quite finished (this is not a rant). Of course I could roll out my own implementation of the action classes but this seems to defeat the purpose of having them provided in the first place.

Would someone please advise the status of the Security Module project in general (question prompted by low levels of GitHub activity), and also outline the plans, if any, for improving the IDM management api.

Many thanks, Andrew

[baraber]

I asked roughly the same question some time ago :
http://seamframework.org/Community/SecurityIdmconsoleNavigation

I suggest you build your own management actions ...

[smurfs.smurfsturf.googlemail.com]

Thanks Richard.

I have actually done so after realising the org.jboss.seam.security.management.action package is somewhat limited.

Given the limitations I think the package ought to be moved from the main seam-security-3.x.x.jar to the idmconsole example where it can serve as an exemplar to developing bespoke implementations. Perhaps the seam team will look into this?

[lightguard]

Andrew, would you be willing to contribute back what you've had to write?

[smurfs.smurfsturf.googlemail.com]

Jason, the code I've developed is probably not generic enough to handle all situations so I'm not going to attempt to extricate it from my code base. I am however keen to give back to the community so will to look at reengineering the idmconsole example/api when I can find the time. Like many of us I am juggling many balls under tight time constraints, so please be patient.

[lightguard]

Understandable. We all know what that's like. We're happy for any contribution from the community.