Abandon (deprecated) SOAP-methods

1 Reasons to Abandon Feature

Some SOAP-methods are marked as "deprecated" and should be removed from the ILIAS code base.

• loginStudIpUser()
• getUser()
• deleteUser()
• saveQuestionResult()
• getNIC()

• loginLDAP(): is an alias for login() and not required
• loginCAS()
• handleECSTasks(): not required / in use anymore since ECS tasks are implemented as cron job

2 Technical Information

No performance and security issues.

3 Contact

• Author of the Request: Meyer, Stefan [smeyer]
• Maintainer: Meyer, Stefan [smeyer]
• Implementation of the feature is done by: {The maintainer must add the name of the implementing developer.}

4 Funding

No funding required.

5 Discussion

Use the following discussion section to express your objections against this request or your consent to get rid of this feature.

JourFixe, ILIAS [jourfixe], 07 FEB 2022: We highly appreciate the suggestion of the maintainer and abandon the mentioned SOAP methods with ILIAS 8.

6 Implementation

The following SOAP-methods have been removed:

• loginStudIpUser
• getUser
• deleteUser
• saveQuestionResult
• getNIC
• loginLDAP
• loginCAS
• handleECSTasks

Removed Testcases

No test cases available for SOAP-based webservices.

Approval

Approved at 03. May 2022 by Meyer, Stefan [smeyer]