Chat about integration tests / installer

[Cantor, Scott]

On 7/27/17, 3:44 PM, "dev on behalf of Tom Zeller" <dev-bounces at shibboleth.net on behalf of tzeller at dragonacea.biz> wrote:

> Scott if you have time, great, because then you could also start a
> Zoom meeting :-)

I don't think I have access to it...

In any case, I'm on vacation anyway.

> To avoid generating credentials, we might need to adjust
>
> <condition property="idp.will.call.certgen">
>
> with some checks to make sure the credentials don't already exist, e.g. :

That's generally true of anything that is pre-populated, I think, avoiding stomping on things.

> Also, FWIW, from the perspective of a downstream installer (like a fed
> op, not sure), I think I could create an Ant buildfile which imports
> the IdP distribution's (using <import/>) and then overrides targets
> yet preserves properties. We could document that, or we could build
> hooks into the install flow before and/or after the WAR is built.

I'd tend to think something more explicit with hook points or interfaces into the process would be more robust than an import/inheritance kind of scheme.

-- Scott