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Custom Login Provider with External Login Form

If a particular authentication mechanism requires a non-IDD login page, then the implementation of Custom Login Provider must use the interface methods listed and described in the following table:

Interface Method Name	Description
initialize	IDD calls this method before any other method of the Login Provider implementation and passes a set of properties that describe the context of execution. In IDD, these properties contain an entry, which can be referenced as LoginProvider. The property SSO_POST_REDIRECT_PAGE_PROPERTY contains the URL of the jsf page that can POST data to external login provider. A Login Provider implementation might use this page to redirect IDD to External Login Page using POST method.
isUseIDDLoginForm	This method must return FALSE.
redirectToProviderLoginPage	This method must form URL to external login form and call redirection to that page. You can also redirect to external login page using the POST method.
extractLoginCredentials	IDD invokes this method when a new user authentication request arrives. If the request contains information from external identity provider, such as request parameters, and cookies, then this method must extract them and return the LoginCredentials (com.siperian.bdd.security.LoginCredentials) instance with properly filled fields. If the request does not contain authentication information, then the method must return NULL.
encodeComponentUrl	This method is not implemented as user name and password is requested by external login form that IDD does not recognize.
onLogout	This method is called when a user logs out. It can run a logout on external identity provider and cleanup parameters defined by the requestLoginCredentials method.
getLogoImageBody	This method must return NULL.

After a successful login, you are directed to the IDD main page or the Informatica Data Controls (IDC) component page, depending on your initial request.

Also, you can bypass external authentication by using the

internal_login_form=true

parameter in the IDD URL that displays the IDD login.

For example,

 http://localhost:8080/bdd?internal_login_form=true

In this case, the user name and password is checked against the list of MDM Hub users.

Pass Credentials to External Link

If you need to embed external links into IDD and the links use the same SSO provider (for example, SalesForce.com) as the installed Custom Login Provider, then use this method for adding authentication information to the link URL. If no information is added, then the method should return the same URL string that was passed to it as a parameter or null.

Example:

Assume that you implement LoginProvider for work with SalesForce.com.

You also define the external link with URL

https://na7.salesforce.com/home/home.jsp

to see the home page of the SalesForce.com account embedded in the IDD screen.

The encodeComponentUrl method receives this URL and converts it to the following:


https://na7.salesforce.com/secur/frontdoor.jsp?sid=<SFDC_API_SESSIONID>&retUrl=https://na7.salesforce.com/home/home.jsp

After this transformation, an Iframe in the IDD page displays the requested home page without redirection to the SalesForce login form.

Using a POST Page

IDD uses the POST page to redirect users to an external login page. This page is submitted after it is loaded to the client.

The source of the page uses the JSF requestScope predefined variable to access the parameters described in the following table:

Parameter Name	Usage
providerGateURL	Must be a string value. It defines the URL where the form will be submitted (form action).
authParameters	It is a map of key–value pairs. Each value pair is used for creating hidden input. Map entry key is used as the input name and value as input field value.

In the following example, the postRedirectPageUrl variable is set up during a call to an initialize method:

public void redirectToProviderLoginPage(HttpServletRequest httpRequest, 
                                        HttpServletResponse httpResponse, 
                                        String returnUrl) throws LoginProviderException {
RequestDispatcher dispatcher =                     
                  httpRequest.getRequestDispatcher(postRedirectPageUrl);
httpRequest.setAttribute( PROVIDER_GATE_URL_ATTR, authReq.getOPEndpoint() );
httpRequest.setAttribute( AUTH_PARAMETERS_ATTR, authReq.getParameterMap() );
dispatcher.forward( httpRequest, httpResponse );
}

To send a redirect to the new page on logout, you can add the following code to the redirectToProviderLoginPage() method:

if("gotoLogoutPage".equalsIgnoreCase(httpRequest.getParameter("logoutParam"))){
    try
        { httpResponse.sendRedirect("http://www.google.com/"); }
        catch (Exception e)
        { // TODO Auto-generated catch block e.printStackTrace(); }
}

The onLogout() method writes code in the response as shown in the following example:

{\"logoutURL\":\"/mdm/entity360view/?logoutParam=gotoLogoutPage\",\"kerberos\":\"true\"}

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