[Pki-devel] [PATCH] pki-cfu-0009-TPS-Token-Profile-Resolver-Plugin-Framework-Ticket-4.patch

[John Magne]

Couple of initial comments on this after looking over it:

1.


Your TokenProfileParams class has this hash map.

private HashMap<String, Object> content = new HashMap<String, Object>();

Then when we add items and get items from this thing, we have to do some fancy
footwork to account for the fact that the "Object" part is holding either a String
value or an int value.

My opinion after doing some research is that this is kind of awkward.

A couple of possible solutions:

    1. Have the HashMap hold <String,String>.

When we want an int we just convert back and forth from string.
This is done often when processing http name value pairs and such.

    2. Instead of relying upon the "get" method of the hash map to return
encoded values, maybe have the parent object "TokenProfileParams" have two
separate methods getString() and getInt(). Each one would take the key name
and output the proper value, int or String


2. We have the following abstract base class:

public abstract class BaseTokenProfileResolver


The abstract class sounds like a good way to have some base functionality to be used by derived classes.
I also believe that the idea is to declare some abstract methods that forces derived classes to implement
these methods.

In this case it sounds like the following method would be a good candidate for abstract:

public String getTokenType(TokenProfileParams pPram);






----- Original Message -----
> From: "Christina Fu" <cfu at redhat.com>
> To: pki-devel at redhat.com
> Sent: Friday, May 30, 2014 3:07:56 PM
> Subject: [Pki-devel] [PATCH]	pki-cfu-0009-TPS-Token-Profile-Resolver-Plugin-Framework-Ticket-4.patch
> 
> This patch implements a Token Profile Resolver Plugin Framework for
> TPS.  It allows a site to implement its own token profile resolver.
> 
> The TokenProfileResolverManager initializes the token Resolver plugin
> framework from the following configuration files:
>   - <instance patch>/conf/registry.cfg
>   - <instance patch>/conf/CS.cfg
> 
> The existing mapping method "getTokenType" was extracted into the
> default plugin code: MappingTokenProfileResolver.  All resolver plugin
> codes will extend from BaseTokenProfileResolver.
> 
> The most visible change from sites running previous versions of TPS is
> that the mapping related config params
> e.g. op.format.mapping.xxx
> have now being extracted into token resolver instance params
> e.g. tokenProfileResolver.formatMappingResolver.mapping.xxxx
>   where "class_id" defines the plugin implementation name defined in the
> registry.cfg
> and op.format.tokenProfileResolver points to the defined resolver instance
> e.g. op.format.tokenProfileResolver=formatMappingResolver
> 
> A separate ticket will be filed to provide actual plugin writing
> instruction as well as a sample plugin.
> 
> Finally, even though this patch does not directly address
> https://fedorahosted.org/pki/ticket/447 RFE: Mapping tokens to
> tokentype, where the request was to figure out the tokenType (Token
> profile) by uid instead of the current mapping method, it provides the
> means for one to write any customized plugins.
> 
> thanks,
> Christina
> 
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