AACLI to web interface?

[Tom Zeller]

> 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. (*)

I like ideas like this too :-)

> 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.

I used HttpClient and our HttpSOAPClient in this probably horrible example :

https://github.com/tomzeller/java-test-attribute-query-v3/blob/master/src/main/java/test/SAMLAttributeQueryExample.java