TWiki::User doesn't offer a way to get a list of users. That's a shame, because this is the only way I have of mapping from an email address back to a User object, which is needed in MailInContrib.

Propose adding this:

sub getListOfWikiNames {
    my $this = shift;
    $this->{usermappingmanager}->cacheTWikiUsersTopic();
    return keys $this->{W2U};
}

I think it's important to do this before Sven goes too far with user mappings; otherwise he may make it impossible.

CC

agreed - I did already add %ALLUSERS%, but its not quite functional - as I'm frightened what it would do on a large site

on IRC CC mentioned that he really needed a TWiki::Users->findUserByEmail()

SD

That's right, I do need findUserByEmail; but I now find (in a different application) that I also need a list of all registered users. Actually I need a full suite of user access functions, to determine group memberships etc. IIRC Meredith is also crying out for this. All it would take is the following additions to the TWiki::Func interface:

• findUser( opts )  -> $user where opts can be wikiname => $wn or email => $em or login => $ln - basically anything that uniquely identifies the user.
• getListOfUsers -> @userObjects - let's stop pissing about with login names and just let the Func interface know about the user object
• getListOfGroups -> @userObjects
• getCurrentUser -> $userObject

CC

I implemented Plugins:FuncUsersContrib as a demonstrator of this API, and soi I can use the functions with TWiki-4

CC