Wt

Hello,

I spent a lot of time understanding the link between the table "auth_info" and the custom user table needed for an application. Maybe I missed something important and in that case I would be pleased to understand, otherwise I came up with the conclusion that Wt/Auth/Dbo/UserDatabase could be improved to provide the link by adding a second class to the template, something like

template <class DboType, class CustomUser>
class UserDatabase : public Wt::Auth::AbstractUserDatabase 
{
[...]
}

and a small change in the registerNew method :

virtual User registerNew() 
{
   DboType *user = new DboType();
   CustomUser *customUser = new CustomUser(); // creating the custom user
   user->setUser(session_.add(customUser)); // adding it to the session to get its pointer and pass it to the setUser method
   setUser(session_.add(user));
   user_.flush();
   return User(boost::lexical_cast<std::string > (user_.id()), *this);
}

It allows someone to directly use your implementation within his registration widget, using the registerUserDetails method which seems made in that purpose, with something like that :

void RegistrationWidget::registerUserDetails(User& user)
{
    dynamic_cast<UserDatabase*>(user.database())->find(user).get()->user().modify()->customField = valueYouAddedToTheModel;
}

Does that make sense ?
Thank you !
Thomas