How to create a new hook?

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Hi,

NextCloud documentation presents some hooks on the following page: https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/11/developer_manual/app/hooks.html

However, I strongly suspect these are not all hooks. Or, that it is possible to define new hooks.

In my case, I want to capture the update account action (change name, email, address, etc), in order to save user data on an LDAP base. Is it possible to do this?

I was wondering about the possibility of capturing the ajax call , which is this case is a PUT call to /index.php/settings/users/{uid}/settings.

I would be gratefull if someone could point me out a way of solving this.

By the way, this is part of the https://gitlab.com/eita/ldapusermanagement, which can already be used to reflect NextCloud user management actions on an LDAP base.

best,
alan

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There is the following hook triggered:

\OC_Hook::emit('OC_User', 'changeUser', array('run' => true, 'user' => $user, 'feature' => $feature, 'value' => $value));

feature is displayName or eMailAddress value the given name.

To listen to the hook just register with:

\OCP\Util::connectHook('OC_User', 'changeUser', 'YourClassName', 'methodToCall');

just add that code into your appinfo/app.php

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Thanks a lot, Nick!

I’ll also add it to the documentation!

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Hi Nick and everybody,

The above answer solves the issue regarding only email and displayName, which appear to be “first class” parameters. However, what I really wanted was to have access to the other parameters, particularly the address.

Is there any hook for that?

EDIT: I opened a new topic for this.