[Building Sakai] CAS and other filter configuration for login tool

[John Bush]

Steve, yeah, that is what we've been doing for the last couple of
years as well, which was definitely a step forward.  At this point, we
are really trying to get to one binary distribution, so the build
switches cause some issue, because it creates more tags, more config,
more builds, more chance for error, more things to transfer around
networks, etc.



On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Steve Swinsburg
<steve.swinsburg at gmail.com> wrote:
> Definitely interested. I did something similar but with filtering where the props get injected at build time:
>
> https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn//msub/anu.edu.au/services/2.8.x/anu-conf/sample.build.properties
> https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn//msub/anu.edu.au/services/2.8.x/login/login-tool/tool/pom.xml
> https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn//msub/anu.edu.au/services/2.8.x/login/login-tool/tool/src/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml
>
> Same method that is used for the uPortal build filtering.
>
> This would be good to have in trunk by default so it works for everyone, using CAS or not, and you just configure it as you please.
>
> cheers,
> Steve
>
> On 31/01/2013, at 4:58 AM, John Bush <john.bush at rsmart.com> wrote:
>
>> I did some work yesterday that I'm not sure anyone else cares about.
>> But if someone is interested let me know and I'll submit a jira/patch.
>>
>> We had a long standing issue of configuring CAS/Shib and other signon
>> mechanisms that require servlet filters.  The issue is that you have
>> to modify web.xml's to configure these things.  That mucks up our
>> whole binary deployment model, and leads to a bunch of annoying
>> practices for managing those changes.
>>
>> So what I did was create a way to drop a spring config file in
>> sakai.home that wires up your filters with their configuration.  I
>> built on Spring's DelegatingFilterProxy and ContextLoader to do this
>> in a way that works if you have this file in your sakai.home folder or
>> not.
>>
>> Like I said if this has value to anyone else let me know.
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>> John Bush
>> 602-490-0470
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