Call discussion of subject c14n use of attribute resolver

Rod Widdowson rdw at steadingsoftware.com
Sat Aug 10 04:21:03 EDT 2013


I hadn't thought about that part of it, but now you mention it, it makes
perfect sense.  It also probably makes for easier reconfiguration - this is
"just the same" as other configuration, rather than being "you have to
implement this API"...

/Rod

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> Subject: Call discussion of subject c14n use of attribute resolver
> 
> Rod mentioned possibly wanting to allow for the use of the attribute
> resolver (though perhaps not the same configured resolver used for normal
> purposes) to do the job of normalizing a NameID into a principal name.
> 
> It occurs to me if we wanted to allow for that, it means we probably want
> to turn that concept into an actual webflow. I don't think having just a
> Java interface is really compatible with being able to reuse so much of
> the IdP if the reuse is of something that's already implemented as a
> webflow.
> 
> Make sense?
> 
> Basically it would be "another" subsystm implemented as a flow of
> action(s) against a context tree, just one that in many cases will be
> trivial.
> 
> -- Scott
> 
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