[cas-dev] Revisited: Using CAS without the Login Screen

[Wulf, Konrad]

Dear CAS developers,

We have adapted the CAS system (v 3.0.6) to support login via the CAS
hosted login form and via external posts. I have written a page on it in
your wiki at
http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/CAS/Using+CAS+without+the+Login+Scree
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In the "Problems encountered and suggested solutions" section, I am
pointing to a dirty aspect of that customization of CAS:

We had to redeclare the submit method in
org.jasig.cas.web.flow.AuthenticationViaFormAction to provide a new
event, that allows us to distinguish between a login posting from the
CAS Site and another site.

My question to you is:

Could, in future versions of CAS, this submit method be made overridable
(non-final) to add new events in a derived class? Or could the CAS
standard implementation provide a new hook by making a distinction
between an error event that targets at a remote site and an error to be
displayed locally?

Or do you have better suggestions for this?

Cheers,
Konrad