[undertow-dev] AuthenticationMechanism lifecycle

[Stuart Douglas]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Anil Saldhana" <Anil.Saldhana at redhat.com>
> To: undertow-dev at lists.jboss.org
> Sent: Monday, 16 December, 2013 4:41:32 PM
> Subject: Re: [undertow-dev] AuthenticationMechanism lifecycle
> 
> Right now, I just have a junit test.  I set the auth mechanism factory
> in the deployment info.
> 
> di.addAuthenticationMechanism("FORM" ,
> SPFormAuthenticationMechanism.FACTORY);
> 
> Irrespective of how it is added, when the deployment start happens,
> undertow should try to start
> the authentication mechanisms by providing a handle to the servlet
> context.  The authentication mechanism
> may need to read deployment descriptors or set up internal resources.

The ServletExtension already has a reference to the ServletContext, you can just pass it in to your factory. 

I guess this is another argument against using the factory, vs just creating it in the ServletExtension.

Stuart

> 
> Regards,
> Anil
> 
> On 12/16/2013 09:38 AM, Darran Lofthouse wrote:
> > How is this authentication mechanism being added?
> >
> > On 16/12/13 15:33, Anil Saldhana wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>       can the authentication mechanism have a lifecycle based on the
> >> context lifecycle?
> >>
> >> I need access to the ServletContext to look for deployment descriptors
> >> using the servletContext.getResourceAsStream() call.
> >>
> >> I am thinking something along the lines of:
> >>
> >> authenticationMechanism.start(ServletContext);
> >> authenticationMechanis.stop();
> >>
> >> This will give an opportunity for the authentication mechanism to
> >> initialize and finalize any resources.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Anil
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