Liferay Users and Screennames

The Liferay's screenname is a unique token that identifies a liferay user from another, so two users cannot use the same screenname.

The screenname validation process has two different parts when a screenname is created, for instance on new users, or imported users (from an LDAP):

  1. External validation
  2. Internal validation

 

1. External Validation

Liferay accepts a custom validation class defined using the Hook mechanism. This consists in overriding the following property at portal-ext.properties:

users.screen.name.validator=com.liferay.portal.security.auth.DefaultScreenNameValidator

 

2. Internal Validation

Once the external validation has been passed, there are some checks that Liferay implements internally to be consistent.

 

3. How it works

The following workflow explains how Liferay checks if the screenname is valid or not.

 

Screenname Validator Data Flow Diagram

 

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useful schema! Daniele Baggio 13 marzo 2012 6.49
what problems could there be by perhaps hooking... Jack Bakker 17 marzo 2013 9.33
Thanks for the explanation! In the schema, for... Frédéric Grumiaux 22 dicembre 2014 6.40

Inviato il 13/03/12 6.49.
what problems could there be by perhaps hooking internal to allow screenname to be an email address
Inviato il 17/03/13 9.33.
Thanks for the explanation!
In the schema, for a character to be valid, looking at the source code, shouldn't it be
isChar(c) || isNumber(c) || c IN {'-','.','_'}
Inviato il 22/12/14 6.40.