On 11/11/2016 01:47, Daniel Ruggeri wrote:
> Hi, Tomcat devs;
> I'm a bit out of my usual neighborhood with httpd... but I'm working
> on creating a custom Authenticator for a non-standard auth-method in
> Tomcat and noticed there isn't a "stock" method for adding
> Authenticators aside from cracking open catalina.jar and messing with
> Authenticators.properties. After a bit of poking around I came across
> the ContextConfig class and found that I can create an implementation
> that allows me to create/assign the Map of customAuthenticators. Sweet -
> so I set up a little testing playground in Eclipse, wrote up my classes
> and am a bit confused by results.
>
> What I have come to find is that when starting Tomcat normally, the
> custom configClass works as expected when setting server.xml up as
> detailed below. When starting Tomcat in embedded mode via eclipse,
> however, I cannot seem to get the custom class to ever be used. I am not
> sure if this is expected behavior based on the way embedded Tomcat works
> or if this may actually be a bug.
>
> Thoughts?
It is a bug. It has been fixed for the next set of releases.
Thanks for the report.
Mark
>
>
>
> --- info below ---
> server.xml Host tag:
> <Host name="localhost" appBase="webapps"
> configClass="ruggeri.daniel.tester.CustomAuthenticatorsContextConfig"
> unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true">
>
>
> Snip of JUnit test for embedded mode:
> tomcat = new Tomcat();
> tomcat.setBaseDir(tempDir.toString());
> tomcat.setHostname("localhost");
> tomcat.setPort(8080);
>
>
> tomcat.getHost().setConfigClass(CustomAuthenticatorsContextConfig.class.getCanonicalName());
>
>
> Context ctx = tomcat.addWebapp(tomcat.getHost(), "/testerApp",
> warPath);
> tomcat.init();
> tomcat.start();
>
>
> Demonstration class to confirm the class is being used.
> CustomAuthenticatorsContextConfig.java:
> package ruggeri.daniel.tester;
>
> import org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig;
>
> public class CustomAuthenticatorsContextConfig extends ContextConfig {
> public CustomAuthenticatorsContextConfig() {
> super();
> System.out.println("Custom Authenticators ContextConfig
> created!!!");
> }
> }
>
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