Authentication with identity management

[emiakoup]

Hello,
i ran into a little concern. I really want to use identity management. I have inheritence for Users. That is User is an abstract class and its children are different type of users. It basically has credentials (username, password and other option relevant to a user as a whole). Now how do i identityManagement.createUser? Since there could as many flows as types of users and for user-class i definately have to specify the User. I can always register a new user by persisting him/her to db, and then call identityManager.createUser? Would't second call return fallse? Having only one type of user for whole application would greatly complicate design. If you have any suggestions... 

[shane.bryzak]

You will need to extend JpaIdentityStore and override the createUser() method.  In particular, the following line will need to be changed to create an instance of the correct user type:

  Object user = userClass.newInstance();

[shane.bryzak]

Actually, if you'd like to raise a feature request in JIRA, I can probably abstract the user instance creation out to another method which can also raise some kind of event to allow you to manipulate the new object.

[emiakoup]

Hello,
i raised a feature request - https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBSEAM-3846
also i implemented this functionality (i posted the zip).
i made three little modifications to:
IdentityManager, IdentityStore and JpaIdentityStore. The application ran as expected. I did run into a validation problem: since password is hashed, length validator failed (i had 15 max set) so i set hash to none. But again i definately had to validate on input. Is there hashing algorithm that at the end there will be same number of characters?

p.s i did not extend IdentityManager, IdentityStore and JpaIdentityStore since i would have to go through configuring new classes (how do i do this?) for a single method only. I decided to add methods instead. Please review it.