AACLI to web interface?

Cantor, Scott cantor.2 at osu.edu
Mon Jul 21 12:09:53 EDT 2014


The idea came up on the last call to repalace the command line AACLI
client with an interface/flow in the IdP that does this and returns the
data to a web page or encoded as XML or JSON, and I'm thinking that's a
really good idea, apart from one implementation detail. (*)

The main advantage to this, apart from just being easier, is that it
supports container managed data sources, which was a major problem with
the current command line client. Maybe that won't be as a big a deal now
that we can support dbcp natively, but it's still a nice side effect.

(*) The hitch is that having a command line client requires a web client,
but I suppose it's easy enough for our use cases here to just use the
HttpClient we have or even java.net.* for something this simple.

-- Scott



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