Hi, please find my reply inline.
On 17 okt. 2012, at 13:21, Francesco Chicchiriccò <[email protected]> wrote: > On 17/10/2012 13:09, Jordi Clement wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> >> Syncope currently does not provide something like "virtual resources", i.e. >> every resource is related to a connector and a target system / application. >> Virtual resources on the other hand can basically be anything, for instance >> a mobile phone or hardware token you'd like to "provision" to the user and >> include in your workflow and that you want to manage through the user's >> identity lifecycle. >> >> I've implemented provisioning solutions in the past that supported these >> "virtual" resources and it's something that, if available, we would put to >> good use right away. >> >> What do you guys think? Would that be a good addition to Syncope's >> functionality? > > Hi Jordi, > this sounds very interesting: you are basically proposing to have > 'empty' resources - i.e. external resources without an associated > connector instance - to be used like as 'marker' for users and / or > roles. Correct? Yes, this is correct. > > If so, this could also be in the direction of SYNCOPE-167 [1]. I don't understand the functionality suggested in SYNCOPE-167. Can you please elaborate on that one? Maybe explain in the form of typical use case / scenario? > >> And is there a way we could simulate such a resource now (for instance, >> using an "empty" connector that we could tie to these virtual resources?). > > The closest match to what you describe above would be to define a > connector instance (of *any* connector bundle) with no capabilities, > then create an external resource with such connector instance. This is only configuration, and no development is necessary. Do I understand correctly? I'll give it a go to decide whether we can use this mechanism for the time being. > You will, though, get some "noise" in the logs (see error message at [2]). I've taken a look at this page, but I'm not sure what your referring to on that page? That last log message I guess? kind regards, Jordi > > Thanks for sharing your thoughts. > > Regards. > > [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SYNCOPE-167 > [2] > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SYNCOPE/Propagation+mode#Propagationmode-Operationalsideeffectsofconfigurationinconsistencies > > -- > Francesco Chicchiriccò > > ASF Member, Apache Cocoon PMC and Apache Syncope PPMC Member > http://people.apache.org/~ilgrosso/ >
