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Bug: T162517
Change-Id: I5b532d79fd1e8b178490cf2617499ae62967de2c
This patch adds an ug_expiry column to the user_groups table, a timestamp
giving a date when the user group expires. A new UserGroupMembership class,
based on the Block class, manages entries in this table.
When the expiry date passes, the row in user_groups is ignored, and will
eventually be purged from the DB when UserGroupMembership::insert is next
called. Old, expired user group memberships are not kept; instead, the log
entries are available to find the history of these memberships, similar
to the way it has always worked for blocks and protections.
Anyone getting user group info through the User object will get correct
information. However, code that reads the user_groups table directly will
now need to skip over rows with ug_expiry < wfTimestampNow(). See
UsersPager for an example of how to do this.
NULL is used to represent infinite (no) expiry, rather than a string
'infinity' or similar (except in the API). This allows existing user group
assignments and log entries, which are all infinite in duration, to be
treated the same as new, infinite-length memberships, without special
casing everything.
The whole thing is behind the temporary feature flag
$wgDisableUserGroupExpiry, in accordance with the WMF schema change policy.
The opportunity has been taken to refactor some static user-group-related
functions out of User into UserGroupMembership, and also to add a primary
key (ug_user, ug_group) to the user_groups table.
There are a few breaking changes:
- UserRightsProxy-like objects are now required to have a
getGroupMemberships() function.
- $user->mGroups (on a User object) is no longer present.
- Some protected functions in UsersPager are altered or removed.
- The UsersPagerDoBatchLookups hook (unused in any Wikimedia Git-hosted
extension) has a change of parameter.
Bug: T12493
Depends-On: Ia9616e1e35184fed9058d2d39afbe1038f56d7fa
Depends-On: I86eb1d5619347ce54a5f33a591417742ebe5d6f8
Change-Id: I93c955dc7a970f78e32aa503c01c67da30971d1a
