[MAGNOLIA-2003] User names with dots not possible Created: 14/Jan/08  Updated: 26/Jun/17  Resolved: 07/Dec/11

Status: Closed
Project: Magnolia
Component/s: core
Affects Version/s: None
Fix Version/s: 4.5

Type: Bug Priority: Major
Reporter: Giancarlo Berner Assignee: Federico Grilli
Resolution: Fixed Votes: 1
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Environment:

Magnolia EE 3.0.5 / Magnolia EE 3.5.2


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dependency
depends upon MAGNOLIA-2343 Replace current implementation for se... Closed
relation
is related to MAGNOLIA-4160 Allow dots in node names Closed
is related to MAGNOLIA-2580 node names: allow dots Closed
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 Description   

Sidenote: This issue is a blocker for a customer and needs to be solved to be able to manage their users with Magnolia.

In some large scale projects usernames often have dots, e.g. john.smith. However, if such a name is added, the dots will be replaced by dashes.
Please extend Magnolia to allow dots in usernames.

The work around is to override info.magnolia.module.admininterface.AdminTreeMVCHandler.renameNode(String)), but this also means that the customer has to expect update problems.



 Comments   
Comment by Jan Haderka [ 03/Sep/08 ]

Dots are currently overloaded in use as selector separators thus allowing them is not option until we remove selectors of resolve the conflict arising from optional use of dots in node names.

Comment by Jan Haderka [ 03/Sep/08 ]

Can be fixed by enabling dots in Path.getValidatedLabel() once the support for selectors is removed.

Comment by Philipp Bracher [ 03/Sep/08 ]

We should solve it by allowing dots for users only (extract the naming method and override it in the user tree). Deprecating the selectors won't be enough because we would have to wait until they were really not supported anymore.

Doing that should be rather trivial. We could also think about decoupling the user node name from the user name and introducing a user name property instead.

Comment by Jan Haderka [ 03/Sep/08 ]

On the other hand I would not like to introduce special handling for user nodes JUST to allow dots there. There is really no reason why any node should not have dots in name.

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