[Yanel-dev] Resource creator and Yanel User resource

[Paloma Gomez]

Hi all,

I have been working recently on the creation of new yanel users using 
the features provided by the resource creator. I have a problem I don't 
know how to solve.

The resource creator displays a form which has been created using the 
set of properties defined by the original resource but it does not 
provide for interaction with the user (there is no way of displaying 
error messages, for instance). In the case of the yanel resource it 
means that the yanel resource can check if the data supplied is valid 
but it has no means of telling the user the data introduced is incorrect 
(e.g, not valid email address, empty userId, the group  does not exist 
...). So the only thing the yanel resource can do is not doing anything 
at all ( it does not create the new yanel user and it does not tell the 
user about it - it just writes an error message in the log file).  The 
bigger problem here  is that the resource creator assumes the creation 
process is always successful and therefore it always creates a yanel-rti 
file and displays a link to the new yanel user, no matter if this yanel 
user was actually created or not.

Maybe we could  somehow improve the resource creator to take into 
account unsuccessful attempts to create a reource. WDYT?

Regards,
Paloma