[Yanel-dev] Enhancing the "User" API

[Michael Wechner]

Hi

We would like to introduce a "profile picture" per user and do this 
generically, which
means we would have to enhance the User API. But it seems to me that we 
probably
want to attach more stuff to a user in the future.

Of course one can always extend the interface with a custom interface 
and cast it within
other custom classes, but this is not really an approach re generic 
stuff and since we don't
have versioned interfaces within the security API (whereas maybe we 
should introduce this),
it also will break custom implementations.

Hence I thought maybe something like the below would make sense

src/core/java/org/wyona/security/core/api/User.java

   /**
      * Get binary property
      * @param name Property name
      */
     public InputStream getProperty(String name);

     /**
      * Set binary property
      * @param name Property name
      */
     public OutputStream setProperty(String name);

WDYT?

Cheers

Michael