[undertow-dev] Overriding Authentication Mechanism for the deployment

[Anil Saldhana]

I will answer tomorrow. Need to provide some details. :)

On May 13, 2013, at 6:29 PM, Stuart Douglas <sdouglas at redhat.com> wrote:

> That maps to the login-config element in web.xml. I was just thinking 
> about how we could allow this to configure custom authenticators. A 
> class name by itself is not enough, as you need some way of configuring 
> the authenticator.
> 
> I was thinking we introduce:
> 
> interface AuthenticationMechanismFactory {
>   AuthenticationMechanism create(final Map<String, String> properties);
> }
> 
> And then allow a syntax like so:
> 
> <auth-method>com.acme.MyAuthMechanismFactory?prop1=val1,prop2=val2</auth-method>
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Stuart
> 
> 
> Anil Saldhana wrote:
>> Also another location is Undertow->LoginConfig class probably we need the same flexibility.
>> I did see a TODO there.
>> 
>> On May 13, 2013, at 6:13 PM, Stuart Douglas<sdouglas at redhat.com>  wrote:
>> 
>>> I changed this to the DeploymentInfo level, and also made it a list to
>>> allow multiple custom authentication mechanisms to be used in the same
>>> deployment.
>>> 
>>> Stuart
>>> 
>>> Anil Saldhana wrote:
>>>> Hi Stuart/Darran,
>>>>    I sent in a PR
>>>> (https://github.com/anilsaldhana/undertow/commit/70838540d01c821973b38f530a97be2f54e83c13)
>>>> to override the authentication mechanism used for a particular web app
>>>> irrespective of what is configured in web.xml login config
>>>> 
>>>> I need this behavior to introduce saml workflow into a web app.
>>>> 
>>>> I put the API change at the DeploymentManagerImpl level.  If you have a
>>>> better alternative, I would like to hear.
>>>> 
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Anil
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