Hi Francesco, I was wondering if the synchronization action classes could be useful for creating events. What do you think? Is it better than workflow? I was looking at: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SYNCOPE/SynchronizationActionsClass
Regards, Ernst 2012/6/25 ernst Developer <[email protected]> > Hi, > > So workflow tasks is the way to go at the moment. > > I totally agree upon your proposed event generating approach, using AOP. > Using a configurable event handler implementation makes it flexible for > every use case. > The events do not have to provide all information, but only key values > that can be used to retrieve the relevant extra information from the > syncope database, would be enough I guess. > > Thanks for now, > Ernst > > 2012/6/25 Francesco Chicchiriccò <[email protected]> > >> On 25/06/2012 12:51, ernst Developer wrote: >> >> Hi Francesco, >> >> Thanks for the reply. >> >> What I understand from your reply is that I can create reports using >> the reportlets, that I have to implement myself. What I basically get by >> implementing a reportlet is some sort of client. This client retrieves data >> from the syncope database, and transforms this data into html or pdf. Hope >> my understanding is correct. >> >> >> It is, indeed :) >> >> >> What I would like to have is some sort of event handling system in >> syncope, that provides the event data to, for instance, a database table, >> or to a publish subscribe queue. Can you give me some advise how to >> implement this? Do you think an approach like this will be available in the >> future in syncope? The main goal here is to provide the information to >> other users than syncope itself. >> >> >> I see: currently, the only kind of "events" you can catch are >> workflow-related, by using custom Task implementations; anything happening >> outside the worklfow cannot be, of course, handled this way. >> >> However, I think that some sort of "interceptor" feature could be very >> interesting to put in roadmap. >> For your reference, I'd think to use some good AOP for implementing this, >> anyway: this would allow to some high grade of flexibility while keeping >> the "main" code clean. >> >> Regards. >> >> >> 2012/6/24 Francesco Chicchiriccò <[email protected]> >> >>> On 22/06/2012 14:10, ernst Developer wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> For reporting reasons we need data about events in Syncope. These >>> events include: >>> >>> - create of a user in Syncope; >>> - provisioning to the resources; including state of the provisioning; >>> - update of a user in Syncope; >>> - provisioning to the resources; including the state of the >>> provisioning; >>> - adding of a resource to a user; >>> - removing of a resource; >>> - delete of a user; >>> - .... >>> >>> I was wondering how I should implement this, using the standard features >>> of Syncope. Can you please help me out on this item, and point for instance >>> the direction for the solution of this requirement. >>> >>> >>> Hi Ernst, >>> you should be able to get most (but not everything) of what you say >>> above in 1.0.0 by implementing your own reportlet: report feature is one of >>> the newcomers in Syncope and is unfortunately not yet documented. >>> >>> Basically, reports are aggregation of reportlets: each reportlet >>> captures a particular aspect you'd like to include in you report - for >>> example the UserReportlet deals with user attributes and resources; >>> reportlets produce output by SAX events (see [1] for an example). >>> >>> You can of course write your own reportlet(s) by implementing [2] or >>> extending [3] + providing a couple of XSLT files for transforming reportlet >>> data into HTML and PDF / RTF respectively - see some examples [4]. >>> >>> Once you have deployed your own reportlets, you are able to configure >>> one or more reports through the admin console. >>> >>> Hope this helps. >>> Regards. >>> >>> [1] >>> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/syncope/tags/syncope-1.0.0-RC1-incubating/core/src/main/java/org/apache/syncope/core/report/UserReportlet.java >>> [2] >>> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/syncope/tags/syncope-1.0.0-RC1-incubating/core/src/main/java/org/apache/syncope/core/report/Reportlet.java >>> [3] >>> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/syncope/tags/syncope-1.0.0-RC1-incubating/core/src/main/java/org/apache/syncope/core/report/AbstractReportlet.java >>> [4] >>> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/syncope/tags/syncope-1.0.0-RC1-incubating/core/src/main/resources/report/ >>> >> -- >> Francesco Chicchiriccò >> >> ASF Member, Apache Cocoon PMC and Apache Syncope PPMC >> Memberhttp://people.apache.org/~ilgrosso/ >> >> >
