Hi there,
I am new to acegi and have been working with it just over the weekend so some of this stuff may be absolute bs but please bear with me on this.
I am currently evaluating the use of acegi for my open source project jestate ( http://jestate.sourceforge.net )
Jestate is (currently) built with the following architecture.
struts --> spring (service) ---> spring (dao) --> hibernate
A lot of my methods in the service layer must take an ( Integer) userid.
( It would also be usefull if I could pass an object arround my jsp pages which indicated the users id as this would be usefull for the flyweight design pattern. )
The reason for this is that often a user will only be able to see a subset of the data in the DB.
So it would be really cool if the User ( which implements UserDetails ) also had an id ( Integer ) properties.
That way I could implement my own AuthenticationDao which would work directly with hibernate and return such a class.
If everything worked with a User interface rather than a concrete implimentation
it would also be possible for me to implement it myself ( this would allow me
to use xdoclet on it to generate hibernate mapping files).
Also is there any way that I could get this information into the service beans without adding any ageci dependant code into my struts actions ?
I notice in the contacts example application that it is done by
snip= SecureContext secureContext = ((SecureContext) ContextHolder.getContext());
final Authentication currentUser = secureContext.getAuthentication();
Contact[] myContacts = contactManager.getAllByOwner(currentUser.getPrincipal().toString());
=snip
in the SecureIndexController class.
Is there any way that I could instead move this stuff into my service layer so that all
authentication is taken out of my controler classes , this would make a cleaner
separation between business logic and security concerns in my application code.
Oh yeah one other thing, I am using acegi from source. I built it over the weekend myself.
Oh and one other thing if I can be of help integrating hibernate I would be more than
happy to contribute any source code to your project.
--b
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