[Yanel-dev] Resource creator and Yanel User resource

[Michael Wechner]

Paloma Gomez wrote:

> 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?


+1

Any suggestions on how to improve it are very welcome.

Btw, I will try to fix resp. get rid of the rti and replace it by rc by 
tomorrow.

Cheers

Michael

>
> Regards,
> Paloma
>
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