Shibboleth Developers

[Walter Hoehn <>]

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Hi Parviz,

If you send me patch files, I will commit them directly after the a2.5
release.

Thanks,
Walter


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| Walter,
|
| I made all the changes that we talked about and I summerize it below.  I
| compiled and tested it but did not commit it to CVS.  I am not sure if
| this is the best time to introduce these changes  as we are about to
| release alpha 2.5 and I am leaving town.  It might be better if I send you
| the changed files and you check them in after the release is done or
| should we wait till I come back.
|
| Notice that these changes would require some changes in the GUI Arp
util too.
|
| Parviz
|
| P.S.  Here are the changes/improvements:
|
| Changed ArpRepository class to take a "class name" and a "Properties
| object" instead of repository type and a data string.  This makes the
| addition of new repository implementations completely dynamic.  One can
| write a different implementation for ARP repository (as long as it
| implements ArpFactory Interface) and just pass in the name of the class in
| the config file.  Properties object is created from all of the servlet
| config key-value pairs and is passed to the implementation.  This way new
| implementations can get configuration values which are set in servlet
| config file.
|
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|>Ok,
|>
|>I'll volunteer.  When are you leaving town?  Would you like to talk on
|>the phone about this today?
|>
|>- -Walter
|>
|>
|>Parviz Dousti wrote:
|>| Yep!  I agree.  Serializing arps was the cheapest and fastest way to
|>get | things going At the time there were too many unanswered questions
|>and I | did not want to complicate this part of it.
|>|
|>| I tried to structure the code to make it easy to add and use other
|>kind | of repositories.     One that we have talked about in the past is
|>a SQL | database.  Any volunteers :-)
|>|
|>| Parviz
|>|
|>| --On Tuesday, July 30, 2002 4:09 PM -0400 Walter Hoehn
|>| 
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|>|> Hey folks,
|>|>
|>|> The incompatibility is in the marshalling/unmarshalling.  The Arp |>
|>classes  currently use Java Serialization to store ARPs.  I have |>
|>mentioned this before, but I think this is not a good idea.  For now, it
|>|> isn't a big deal to just give people a new APR, since there are only
|>a |> couple of folks in the test.  Furthermore, they are only using an
|>one |> ARP for the whole site.  Down the road, if someone has 2,000 user
|>|> created ARPs, we can't just say "create new ARPs".  It is true that
|>we |> could create tools to convert between ARP formats, but I think it
|>is a |> mistake to obscure this data from humans when there isn't any
|>reason to. |>
|>|> - -Walter
|>|>
|>|>
|>|> Derek Atkins wrote:
|>|> | Is there an upgrade tool to convert from the old to new ARPs? |> |
|>Or is this an ephemeral, in-core ARP only that is not compatible? |> |
|>|> | -derek
|>|> |
|>|> | Parviz Dousti 
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|>|> |
|>|> |
|>|> |>I checked in the change that we talked about on Monday.  Now you
|>can |> |>specify a "title" or "comment" for the ArpResource object.  I
|>changed |> |>ArpUtil (command line util) to support the new feature.
|>Please notice |> |>the following important issues:
|>|> |>
|>|> |>
|>|> 1- Since we changed the Arp object, none of the previously
|>|> |>created ARPs can be used.  You have to create new ones with the new
|>|> |>ArpUtil program. (Same goes for Arp GUI once Barbara uses new
|>classes). |> |>
|>|> |>
|>|> 2- If you use the command line interface and want to add
|>|> |>resources with TITLE, you must somehow skip the blank spaces in the
|>|> |>title.  Just putting quotes around it is not enough.  I'll see if I
|>|> |>can find a way around it.
|>|> |>
|>|> |>
|>|> I also checked in a new "admin" arp for distribution.
|>|> |>
|>|> |>Parviz
|>|> |>
|>|> |>
|>|> |
|>|> |
|>|>
|>|>
|>|> - --
|>|> - -------------------------
|>|> Walter F. Hoehn, Jr
|>|> Systems Programmer
|>|> Columbia University - EPIC
|>|> - -------------------------
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|>Walter F. Hoehn, Jr
|>Systems Programmer
|>Columbia University - EPIC
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Walter F. Hoehn, Jr
Systems Programmer
Columbia University - EPIC
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