Re: Authentication stuff

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 19:06 +0200, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
> Hi Alex,
> 
> so I got not registered users to work by reading the cookie.
> 
> There are two things I'm not sure about:
> 
> 1 In the xmlrpc calls I'm doing this to get the caller:
> 
> Person caller = YarrrServlet.getCurrentSession().loadPerson();

Yeah, that looks good.

> 2 To get the person ref from the cookie (value) I'm doing:
> 
> Person person = (Person)ReferencableObjectRegistry.lookup(value);
> personRef = person.getRef();

Well, this is sort of overdoing it actually, since it loads the object
from the database just to parse a string to an int. Maybe we can use
ReferencableObjectRegistry.parseReference() to do this. Its a private
function atm, but we can make it public.


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