Grouper Developers Forum

[Tom Zeller <>]

Great !

Could you publish your code so that I can take a look, please ?

I think it will be easier for me to help, and to document this
process, if I know what you are doing.

Thanks,
TomZ

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 8:46 AM, Arnaud Deman
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 wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I am trying to understand how to write an ldappc-ng extension in order
> to publish into something else than LDAP, for instance a database.
>
> I have followed the instruction given by Tom in this thread :
> https://lists.internet2.edu/sympa/arc/grouper-users/2011-02/msg00017.html
>
> And also the documentation for creating Custom IdP :
> https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/SHIB2/IdPDevCustomExtension
>
> This first step seems to be ok :
> I have written the Provider, the namespace handler, the parser, the
> schema and added the corresponding target into ldappcng.xml
>
> For the moment my Provider is very simple : it always return false to
> the lookup
> queries and it logs the other ones.
>
> I have some difficulties to see the next step in order to make it more
> functionnal.
>
> My first problem is about the independancy from LDAP :
> In the queries given to my provider the psoid have a dn form
> e.g. ou=esup,ou=groups,dc=univ,dc=fr
> and the search requests have some LdapFilterQueryClause instances.
>
> I think it comes from the PSP class, but I was not able to understand if
> I have to override it, partially or complety, or if it is a configuration
> pb. I have also some difficulties to see the relationship between this
> PSP class and my own provider. I suppose it's managed by Spring but I
> can't see where it is defined.
>
> My second problem is to understand the mecanism used to compute the
> objects to add/modify/delete. I wonder if i have to write some other
> components or
> if it is only based on the answers given by my provider. And how are
> made the comparisons between the objects : with the psoid, with the
> attributes ? Sorry if my questions are naive...
>
>
> Thanks in advance for your help,
> Best regards,
> Arnaud.
>
>
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