[undertow-dev] AuthenticationMechanism lifecycle

[Stuart Douglas]

ServletExtension is usable in embedded deployments as well now. I recently added io.undertow.servlet.api.DeploymentInfo#addServletExtension, so you can manually add extensions to the deployment as well as discovering them.

Stuart



----- Original Message -----
> From: "Anil Saldhana" <Anil.Saldhana at redhat.com>
> To: "Stuart Douglas" <sdouglas at redhat.com>
> Cc: undertow-dev at lists.jboss.org
> Sent: Tuesday, 17 December, 2013 4:43:51 PM
> Subject: Re: [undertow-dev] AuthenticationMechanism lifecycle
> 
> 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?
> 
> >
> > 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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