Is there any way to hook users functionality in GateIn?

[abdulbasitmughal]

I want to replicate users profile field data in other custom tables (other than GateIn tables) on user’s creation process. Here GateIn user’s creation functionality remains the same as it is. Two ways that comes in my mind are

- Add triggers at database level - when user will be created then a trigger initiate and enter the data (user’s profile info) into other custom table.

- Add hook to user creation process that enhance the functionality and can add data (user’s profile info) in custom table.

Can anyone please guide me that which one approach can be applicable in GateIn case or is there any other solution?

Note: I am using GateIn 3.6 with MySQL and jboss-as-7.1.1.Final

Thanks in advance for your help in this regard.

Thanks,

Abdul Basit

[mposolda]

Hi,

User/groups/memberships management in GateIn is handled by OrganizationService API described here https://docs.jboss.org/author/display/GTNPORTAL36/Organization+API . This API supports listeners, which you can register into eXo kernel and then you will be able to listen to some events around object modification. In your case you can:

- Create subclass of class org.exoplatform.services.organization.UserEventListener and register it into kernel. Then GateIn portal will always trigger methods preSave/postSave of your listener before/after each creation or update of user.

- Create subclass of class org.exoplatform.services.organization.UserProfileEventListener and register it into kernel. Then GateIn portal will always trigger methods preSave/postSave of your listener before/after each creation or update of user profile.

For example see here https://github.com/gatein/gatein-portal/blob/master/component/web/oauth-common/src/main/java/org/gatein/security/oauth/data/UniqueOAuthProviderUsernameListener.java the example of UserProfileEventListener with overriden method preSave (triggered always before creation/edit of user profile)

And see GATEIN_HOME/gatein/gatein.ear/portal.war/WEB-INF/conf/sso/oauth-configuration.xml (lines 117-124) on how this listener could be registered. You will probably need to add the class with your listener into GATEIN_HOME/modules/org/gatein/lib/main

Marek