User Configurable Flow at /idp/

[Cantor, Scott]

On 9/4/14, 3:15 PM, "Marvin Addison" <marvin.addison at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>I really like the ability to add new functionality by dropping files
>in the right location to install new flows. Lots of possibilities open
>up if editing web.xml is an option, but lots of potential for mistakes
>and maybe upgrade hassles. Why not put _all_ flows under /profile
>(status would be a special case), which would allow the same
>capability to define flows by copying files without needing to touch
>web.xml?

I wasn't saying that wouldn't work, just saying that we don't have to
preclude people mapping other things if they want to do that. Of course
that introduces more upgrade hassles if we have to change web.xml, so I
would still advise people to stick to the handful of places we pre-map.

>Regarding your suggestion to put a forward in index.jsp, that's
>definitely an option if the servlet mappings change. It's probably a
>better option, in fact, than the one I proposed since it's more
>generally flexible.
>
>Should we create a Jira issue to track this feature?

Yeah, I'm overseas until tomorrow so I don't have time to look at it at
the moment.

-- Scott