[External Email] Re: Help getting username

[Jeffrey J Ramsay]

Ok. I will try that.

Thank you.

-Jeff

On Thu, Jun 6, 2024 at 11:24 AM Cantor, Scott <cantor.2 at osu.edu> wrote:

> These are dev list questions, so please use that list for this kind of
> thing.
>
> > Also, I was trying to understand how this works for the view
> > scope, but not when I passed it to the setter.
>
> Because that setter is an injection point for a Function, and you're
> trying to call another Function that expects a ProfileRequestContext with
> the input to the setter, which is a Function itself.
>
> That Java code in the setter shouldn't even compile, it should flag the
> input to our Function as being the wrong type.
>
> The viewScope expression you're asking about is calling a function and
> passing the opensamlProfileRequestContext variable as the input. There are
> a ton of complexities wrapped up in that but the point is that
> opensamlProfileRequestContext is an object of the proper type for the
> Function.
>
> Whereas you're calling the Function with a different, incorrect type and
> doing it in a place that would never have access to the PRC at runtime to
> pass into the function to get it to run.
>
> Byeond that, we're deep into member support here. I can't debug code for
> people for free, not anymore.
>
> My best piece of advice here from all that XML is that you're trying to
> build your own login flow, and I would advise you to reconsider that. Use
> the External  login flow feature and build the logic you need in a
> stand-alone way that doesn't require as much understanding of IdP
> internals. It's still Java or JSP but it's much more contained.
>
> -- Scott
>
>
>
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