Spring shorthand, again

[Cantor, Scott]

On 1/26/16, 8:14 PM, "dev on behalf of Nate Klingenstein" <dev-bounces at shibboleth.net on behalf of nate.klingenstein at utah.edu> wrote:



>The 5% “hmm” is the entanglement of authentication with attribute resolution, again.  I think the goal was to reduce how much people need to know about LDAP in the base case, andddd here we are trying to figure out how to reduce how much people need to know about LDAP again.

I don't think it works well, basically. LDAP simply doesn't have the requisite notion of DataSource to make it simple to share it across cases, and authentication is very different from data lookup with a service account.

>2)  Mingled XML and Spring and properties.  I fault myself for not anticipating it, but it seems like people have “XML mode” and “not XML mode” in their heads, and never the two shall meet.  As soon as they’re crossed, even if it looks simpler to me, it looks like sheer mayhem to others.  I have no idea how to help this other than really making the properties files really, really separate, or putting in big bold comments.

That's why it works mostly ok for things that are being set inside system files, because the settings don't overlap with XML a user is going to see.

>Either’s fine.  Even a URL would satisfy me.  Just some bump that people would hit after a few hours.

I doubt a URL would help much, people can't click that in an editor usually. The note just has to be really brief.

-- Scott