Shibboleth Developers

[Chad La Joie <>]

I guess I'm not quite sure what you mean Ian.  All the points that are 
pluggable, I believe, are reflected in the idp.xml file already.  If we 
did something as generic as you're talking about I'm not sure how the 
IdP would know what the plugin was even for.

Ian Young wrote:
> Chad La Joie wrote:
>
> > Instead, why don't you treat the configuration of your name mapper the 
> > same way that all the other components like this (name mappers, 
> > artifact mappers, protocol handlers, etc) are configured in the IdP?
>
>
> Just to (possibly over-) broaden the question a little bit, I was 
> wondering recently whether there was a place for a mechanism to provide 
> configuration (and loading) of general plugins from the idp.xml, outside 
> the classes currently supported (name mappers, metadata providers, etc)
>
> I guess it would need some kind of <Plugin> extension to the idp.xml 
> schema, plus a little bit of cut-and-paste in IdPResponder.java.  So, 
> not heavy.  I can hack up something like this if people want to look at 
> something concrete.
>
> The main objection I can think of to this is that anything that is 
> outwith the currently defined categories doesn't have any place to hook 
> into the rest of the code, so it has a problem doing anything useful. 
> The thing I'm interested in myself falls into this category: I have some 
> code I wrote for the 1.2 IdP that does behind-NAT address mapping, but 
> it would have to hook the call to request.getRemoteAddr() in 
> ShibbolethV1SSOHandler and for now that would mean patching the code 
> there... so acting as a "generic plugin" doesn't help a huge amount.
>
> However, having a general configuration and loading hook would reduce 
> the amount of code I'd have to patch in order to make this work, and 
> provide me with a way to configure it that didn't involve opening my own 
> configuration file or just changing the code to reconfigure.
>
> Sorry if this is way off topic, but any comments on the general idea?
>
>     -- Ian

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