I'm confused I guess.

I've seen lots of ASF::Person.find(id)

Is there a way to determine if this is a real person?

Why are you suggesting ASF::Person[id]

I could not find the doc for these...

?

Craig

> On Jan 27, 2018, at 5:24 PM, Sam Ruby <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 7:56 PM, Craig Russell <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Jan 27, 2018, at 4:25 PM, Sam Ruby <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> ASF::Person[userName] will return nil if the person does not exist,
>>> otherwise it will return the ASF::Person object associated with this
>>> person.
>> 
>> Can you see what is wrong with this code?
>> 
>>  def getMember(userId)
>>    user = ASF::Person.find(userId)
> 
> Change above line to:
> 
>  user = ASF::Person[userId]
> 
> [question: is the above line needed?  user isn't used...]
> 
>>    mockId = params['mock']
>>    if ASF::Person.find(mockId) != nil
> 
> Change the above line to:
> 
>  if mockId and ASF::Person[mockId]
> 
> ASF::Person.find will always return an object that can be used to query LDAP.
> 
>>      # if mock is set, set member to mock value
>>      return mockId
>>    else
>>     return userId
>>    end
>>  end
>> 
>> What I see is:
>> 
>> http://whimsy.local/project/icla?token=1&mock=rubys
>> 
>> member: rubys
>> 
>> http://whimsy.local/project/icla?token=1
>> 
>> member: null
>> 
>> 
>>> 
>>> - Sam Ruby
>>> 
>>> On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 7:11 PM, Craig Russell <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> I'm allowing users of project/icla to pretend to be another user for the 
>>>> purpose of testing.
>>>> 
>>>> I have this code that doesn't quite work:
>>>> 
>>>> def getUser(userName)
>>>>   user = ASF::Person.find(userName)
>>>>   mockName = params['mock']
>>>>   if mockName != '' and ASF::Person.find(mockName).id == mockName
>>>>     # if mock is set, set member to mock value
>>>>     return mockName
>>>>   else
>>>>    return userName
>>>>   end
>>>> end
>>>> 
>>>> What I'm trying to do is to see if the mocked user actually exists.
>>>> 
>>>> The code returns the mock name even if the mock name does not exist.
>>>> 
>>>> What is the correct test for user exists?
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> 
>>>> Craig
>>>> 
>>>> Craig L Russell
>>>> Secretary, Apache Software Foundation
>>>> [email protected] http://db.apache.org/jdo
>>>> 
>> 
>> Craig L Russell
>> Secretary, Apache Software Foundation
>> [email protected] http://db.apache.org/jdo
>> 

Craig L Russell
Secretary, Apache Software Foundation
[email protected] http://db.apache.org/jdo

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