Hi Team, I haven been wondering about this for a while and I would like to hear your thoughts.
Concretely, I am wondering if people are happy with the current file or resource based keystore instantiation supported by the tlsClientParameters's configuration schema. The current schema does not allow any bean referencing from within. So, using the http's spring or blueprint namespace handlers that are based on this schema, you need to configure this entire structure. This makes it difficult to use this configuration handler If you have your own mechanism to get keystores and you can provide it as a bean or factory-bean reference. In such cases, one could directly configure the httpConduit and its tlsClientParameter as beans directly. Unfortunately, this doesn't work in blueprint because the blueprint bean element does not have the name attribute that can be used to configure the conduit's matching pattern. So, this is not practical. Besides, I think it's pain to configure beans directly when the specific namespace handlers are available. So what are the options? Is this an unusual use case? If this is not an unusual use case, should we add the reference attribute in some of those elements so that these can be optionally configured separately and referenced? Your comments are appreciated. Thanks. Regards, Aki
