Shibboleth Developer's Meeting, September 6, 2013

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60 to 90 minute call window.

Brent

Continuing to work on metadata resolver refactoring.  Conversion to MetadataResolver API and pre-processing model is largely complete.  Main outstanding issue is design of how/where to do per-node processing for things like EntitiesDescriptor@Name and shib:KeyAuthority.  A concern and desirable goal is to reduce unnecessary treewalking. Choices are:

• New plugin abstractions for MetadataResolver itself
• MetadataFilter impl which does 1 treewalk and takes plugins similar to #1
• Just implement each as a MetadataFilter unto itself, so each does own treewalk.  Advantage is no new abstractions.

Refactored MetadataCredentialResolver to use new credential caching mechanism based on XMLObject#getObjectMetadata class-to-instance multimap.

Refactored HTTP metadata resolvers to use Apache HttpClient v4.  Some TODO's remaining around capabilities differences to v3 client.

Also a variety of other interface and base class impl cleanup; removing old interfaces, etc;  simplifying and fixing up the ChainingMetadataResolver.

Next up: finalize and implement the plugin processing above.  Finish up HttpClient refactoring. Start on dynamic metadata resolver.

Daniel

Connected with Rod to get Velocity template work done for RDBMS connector

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Completed first batch of authentication work, documented at Authentication and Session Management

• Context design
• Configuration and selection of flows
• SSO via active results pulled from session (session itself is TBD)
• Implemented and tested flows for IP authn, asserted RemoteUser or header, and form/basic-auth to JAAS
• Successful integration of nested subflows for Authentication into MVC profile testbed
• Explored error handling a bit
• Handling of AuthnContext, including non-exact matching

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