Hi Senthalan,
I think we need two options here.
1. To allow retry x number of attempts if when the authenticator is failed.
2. To allow retry if the same authenticator has been successful in current
authentication session.
Cheers,
Ruwan A
On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 11:19 AM Senthalan Kanagalingam <sentha...@wso2.com>
wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> On Sun, Jul 21, 2019 at 2:13 PM Maduranga Siriwardena <madura...@wso2.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I think the requirement here is to force to execute the step though it is
>> already authenticated for the browser session. @Senthalan, please correct
>> me if I am wrong.
>>
> Yes, the requirement is to force to execute the step even though the step
> is successfully authenticated.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Senthalan
>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> On Sun, Jul 21, 2019, 8:14 AM Ishara Karunarathna <isha...@wso2.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> HI Senthalan,
>>>
>>> +1 for the idea,
>>> At the moment we handle this in the authenticator level. So better to
>>> get it into the framework level.
>>>
>>> -Ishara
>>>
>>> On Sun, Jul 21, 2019 at 5:29 AM Johann Nallathamby <joh...@wso2.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Senthalan,
>>>>
>>>> In the AbstractAuthenticator interface we have a method as follows:
>>>>
>>>> protected boolean retryAuthenticationEnabled() {}
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> My understanding was that the retry mechanism is enabled per
>>>> authenticator level in the authentication-framework even now. Not sure if
>>>> we can configure the retry count now. Is your idea to make this behavior
>>>> adaptive?
>>>>
>>>> How would this improvement impact for:
>>>> 1. Authenticators that have implemented "return true" for above method
>>>> 2. Authenticators that have implemented "return false" for above method
>>>> 3. Users who have extended and provided their own implementation
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Johann.
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 7:56 AM Senthalan Kanagalingam <
>>>> sentha...@wso2.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>> Currently, in our authentication framework, we force to retry the
>>>>> complete authentication process. With the adaptive authentication script,
>>>>> it will be great if we support force to retry mechanism per step. Let me
>>>>> explain a use-case. There will be 3 steps for authentication. if the 1st
>>>>> and 2nd steps passed successfully and the 3rd step failed the user has to
>>>>> again authenticate with 2nd step to retry the 3rd steps.
>>>>>
>>>>> We can pass a flag in the authentication options parameter (let's say
>>>>> { forceStepRetry : true }) from the script for each excuteStep() method
>>>>> and
>>>>> forced to retry the step in the step handler.
>>>>>
>>>>> function onLoginRequest(context) {
>>>>> executeStep(1, {
>>>>> onSuccess: function (context) {
>>>>> forceRetry(context);
>>>>> }
>>>>> });
>>>>> }
>>>>>
>>>>> function forceRetry(context) {
>>>>>
>>>>> executeStep(2, { forceStepRetry : true }, {
>>>>>
>>>>> onSuccess: function (context){
>>>>>
>>>>> executeStep(3, {
>>>>>
>>>>> onSuccess: function (context){
>>>>>
>>>>> // Logic to execute if step 3 succeeded
>>>>>
>>>>> },
>>>>>
>>>>> onFail: function (context){
>>>>> forceRetry(context);
>>>>> }
>>>>>
>>>>> });
>>>>> }
>>>>> });
>>>>>
>>>>> }
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Please share your thoughts on this.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Senthalan
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