--- a/ChangeLog	Fri Aug 24 14:08:31 2012 +0000
+++ b/ChangeLog	Fri Aug 24 14:09:53 2012 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2012-08-24	Björn Ricks	<bjoern.ricks@intevation.de>
+
+	* artifact-database/src/main/java/de/intevation/artifactdatabase/rest/RestApp.java,
+	  artifact-database/src/main/java/de/intevation/artifactdatabase/rest/FindUserResource.java:
+	  Add REST service to be able to find a user by its account name.
+
 2012-08-24	Björn Ricks	<bjoern.ricks@intevation.de>
 
 	* artifact-database/src/main/java/de/intevation/artifactdatabase/ArtifactDatabaseImpl.java,

--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/artifact-database/src/main/java/de/intevation/artifactdatabase/rest/FindUserResource.java	Fri Aug 24 14:09:53 2012 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1,79 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2011 by Intevation GmbH
+ *
+ * This program is free software under the LGPL (>=v2.1)
+ * Read the file LGPL.txt coming with the software for details
+ * or visit http://www.gnu.org/licenses/ if it does not exist.
+ */
+package de.intevation.artifactdatabase.rest;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+
+import org.apache.log4j.Logger;
+
+import org.restlet.data.MediaType;
+import org.restlet.data.Status;
+import org.restlet.ext.xml.DomRepresentation;
+import org.restlet.representation.EmptyRepresentation;
+import org.restlet.representation.Representation;
+import org.restlet.resource.ResourceException;
+import org.restlet.Response;
+
+import org.w3c.dom.Document;
+
+import de.intevation.artifacts.ArtifactDatabase;
+import de.intevation.artifacts.ArtifactDatabaseException;
+
+/**
+ * A Rest resource that finds the user provided by the artifact database.
+ *
+ */
+public class FindUserResource
+extends      BaseResource
+{
+    /** The logger that is used in this class.*/
+    private static Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(FindUserResource.class);
+
+    /** server URL where to reach the resource.*/
+    public static final String PATH = "/find-user";
+
+
+    @Override
+    protected Representation innerPost(Representation requestRepr)
+    throws    ResourceException
+    {
+        Document input = null;
+
+        try {
+            DomRepresentation in = new DomRepresentation(requestRepr);
+            in.setNamespaceAware(true);
+            input = in.getDocument();
+        }
+        catch (IOException ioe) {
+            logger.error(ioe.getLocalizedMessage(), ioe);
+
+            Response response = getResponse();
+            response.setStatus(Status.CLIENT_ERROR_BAD_REQUEST, ioe);
+            return new EmptyRepresentation();
+        }
+
+        ArtifactDatabase db = getArtifactDatabase();
+
+        try {
+            logger.info(PATH);
+
+            return new DomRepresentation(
+                MediaType.APPLICATION_XML,
+                db.findUser(input, getCallMeta()));
+        }
+        catch (ArtifactDatabaseException adbe) {
+            logger.warn(adbe.getLocalizedMessage(), adbe);
+
+            Response response = getResponse();
+            response.setStatus(
+                Status.CLIENT_ERROR_UNPROCESSABLE_ENTITY, adbe.getMessage());
+            return new EmptyRepresentation();
+        }
+    }
+}
+// vim:set ts=4 sw=4 si et sta sts=4 fenc=utf8 :

--- a/artifact-database/src/main/java/de/intevation/artifactdatabase/rest/RestApp.java	Fri Aug 24 14:08:31 2012 +0000
+++ b/artifact-database/src/main/java/de/intevation/artifactdatabase/rest/RestApp.java	Fri Aug 24 14:09:53 2012 +0000
@@ -81,6 +81,7 @@
         router.attach(CreateUserResource.PATH,  CreateUserResource.class);
         router.attach(ListUsersResource.PATH,   ListUsersResource.class);
         router.attach(UserResource.PATH,        UserResource.class);
+        router.attach(FindUserResource.PATH,    FindUserResource.class);
         router.attach(
             CreateCollectionResource.PATH, CreateCollectionResource.class);
         router.attach(