[undertow-dev] AuthenticationMechanism lifecycle

[Bill Burke]

On 12/17/2013 10:43 AM, Anil Saldhana wrote:
> On 12/17/2013 01:38 AM, Stuart Douglas wrote:
>>
>> ----- 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.
> Unfortunately my unit tests run in junit. I cannot integrate the
> ServletExtension mechanism which is
> a wildfly based integration usecase. If PicketLink SAML SSO has to
> integrate with Undertow, the unit
> tests have to run in JUnit like we do with Tomcat and Jetty.
>
> Do you have goals for Undertow to be a standalone web container (like
> jetty) or it is just a web container
> usable in Wildfly?
>

I already use Undertow in unit tests.  I'm also planning on swapping out 
the embedded container we use to test Resteasy in favor of Undertow.


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