Adding Attributes to the Principal

[Marat Radchenko]

Is there any "official" modified response format that supports attributes?

2007/9/16, Scott Battaglia <scott.battaglia at gmail.com>:
> Ross,
>
> The AuthenticationManager is the portion of CAS that constructs the
> Principal.  You'll need to configure your custom authentication handler and
> your CredentialsToPrincipalResolver in the deployerConfigContext as part of
> the AuthenticationManager.
>
> You'll also need to use either the SAML 1.1 response or a modified CAS 2.0
> response so that your client can actually retrieve the attributes.
>
> The CAS 2.0 responses are JSP pages that you can modify located in the
> WEB-INF/views/jsp/protocol/2.0 directory.
>
> -Scott
>
>
> On 9/14/07, Ross Bleakney <rossbleakney at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > I would like to return more than the user name from the server. So, I
> changed my authentication handler to do the following:
> >
> > public class MyHandler implements AuthenticationHandler{
> >     public boolean authenticate(Credentials cred) throws
> AuthenticationException {
> >         UsernamePasswordCredentials upCred = (UsernamePasswordCredentials)
> cred;
> >
> >         String username = upCred.getUsername();
> >         String password = upCred.getPassword();
> >         try {
> >             MyAccount account = MyAccount.authenticate(username,
> password);
> >
> UsernamePasswordCredentialsToPrincipalResolver resolver =
> >                new
> UsernamePasswordCredentialsToPrincipalResolver();
> >             Principal principal = resolver.resolvePrincipal(upCred);
> >             StubPersonAttributeDao stub = new StubPersonAttributeDao();
> >             HashMap<String, Object> map = new HashMap<String,
> Object>(principal.getAttributes());
> >             map.put("AccountID", account.getAccountID());
> >             stub.setBackingMap(map);
> >             resolver.setAttributeRepository(stub);
> >         } catch (Throwable e) {
> >             return false;
> >         }
> >
> >         return true;
> >     }
> >     ...
> > }
> >
> > So, now I have a few questions:
> >
> > 1) Should this work?
> > 2) How do I get the information out on the client side (servlet)?
> >
> > I can get the receipt from the client side (using
> session.getAttribute(CASFilter.CAS_FILTER_RECEIPT)), but I don't know how to
> resolve that into a set of attributes. If I just had a lump of xml, I could
> easily parse through it, but I don't know how to get that.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ross
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