Put breakpoints and follow the Shibboleth IDP

[Chad La Joie]

No

On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Manisha Sinha <manishasinha70 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Is there a document that describes the flow of control from one class to
> another for different cases?
>
> From: Chad La Joie <lajoie at itumi.biz>
> To: Shib Dev <dev at shibboleth.net>
> Sent: Thursday, August 9, 2012 1:33 PM
>
> Subject: Re: Put breakpoints and follow the Shibboleth IDP
>
> Well, requests start at the profile handlers.  Probably the easiest
> one is the Shibboleth SSO profile handler.  That's a request that
> doesn't require a ton of upfront work to process and check.
>
> On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Manisha Sinha <manishasinha70 at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>> Thanks Chad. I will try it.
>>
>> Also, can you suggest where is like the starting point/package of the idp?
>> I
>> have seen the java doc. It is quite a big project. I need to understand
>> the
>> flow in different cases. Is there a class diagram/document of how and when
>> the classes and methods are called?Please help.
>>
>> From: Chad La Joie <lajoie at itumi.biz>
>> To: Shib Dev <dev at shibboleth.net>
>> Sent: Thursday, August 9, 2012 12:48 PM
>> Subject: Re: Put breakpoints and follow the Shibboleth IDP
>>
>> Yeah, I've done it before to diagnose problems.  The IdP is just a
>> webapp so just Google for how to perform remote debugging of webapps
>> in Eclipse (may even be in the eclipse manual itself)
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 3:28 PM, Manisha Sinha <manishasinha70 at yahoo.com>
>> wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I am trying to understand the code of Shibboleth IDP. I have downloaded
>>> the
>>> code from SVN and imported the project in Eclipse-STS. I also have a
>>> idp.war
>>> deployed on tomcat.
>>>
>>> I have found that the best way to understand a code is to put breakpoints
>>> and watch the flow of the code and also get an idea of what values are
>>> being
>>> passed. I have done this in the past where I have deployed my war file on
>>> tomcat, have the project in the Eclipse (actually it was MyEclipse and I
>>> configured using MyEclipse externally launced Server in the Debug
>>> settings
>>> window) and then put breakpoints in the code. For example when a user
>>> enters
>>> the username and password and clicks Login button, the code would stop at
>>> the breakpoint where the authentication is done (assuming I have put a
>>> breakpoint at the right place). I find this a very neat way to
>>> debug/understand a web app.
>>>
>>> I want to do something similar to understand the IDP code. Has anyone
>>> tried
>>> this??
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
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