RE: [flexcoders] Authentication with Macromedia Flex

Sun, 09 Oct 2005 09:59:17 -0700

I put theh handling of the failed authentication directly in the Services.mxml... simple and works.
 
<mx:Script>
function handleRemoteFault( event ):Void {
    if( event.fault.faultcode == "Client.Authentication" || event.fault.faultcode == "401" ) {
        // do whatever you want here, its a free country
    }
    else {
        event.call.faultHandler( event );
    }
}
</mx:Script>
 
 
Dimitrios "Jimmy" Gianninas
RIA Developer
Optimal Payments Inc.
 

From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Douglas Knudsen
Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 9:53 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Authentication with Macromedia Flex

so, I got auth working using the approach you mentioned

CallbackHandler handler = new SimpleCallbackHandler( userName, password );
     Subject subject = Authentication.login( handler );
     ServletAuthentication.runAs( subject, httpRequest );

silightly different looking under JRun of course.  Now, I'm horribly stuck on getting the roles of the user after logging in.  I have set up Roles under teh JMC, JRuns instance manager.  I tested it all with BASIC auth, so I know the autentication and authorisation are working.  I've been working all week on getting the roles for the user after authenticating and can't find squat of an example.  Any hints perhaps?

On a similar note...  Using service.setUserNamePassword() in Flex I know it will authenticate a user, does it also authorise the user by gathering up the roles defined in the containers JAAS config?


and one more concerning cairingrom....  to use service.setUserNamePassword()  effectively, it appears you would need to modify the onfault event of a service in services.mxml file to check for a failed authentication.  If not here then every command using the service would need this check, eh?  What other way can this be done possibly?  Create a AuthCommand abstract class to extend or something?

DK

On 10/7/05, Dimitrios Gianninas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ah yes about accessing the session, I read that article as well. I plan to change this in the future, just haven't gotten there yet.
 
Dimitrios "Jimmy" Gianninas
RIA Developer
Optimal Payments Inc.
 
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Douglas Knudsen
Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 3:54 PM

To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Authentication with Macromedia Flex

http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=9636f34e&pss=rss_flex_9636f34e
there.

Thanks for the hint about using JAAS via CallBackHandler, etc in th eother thread...I have not got it working 100% on JRun yet...but still banging away at it.

DK

On 9/26/05, Dimitrios Gianninas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Where did you hear that it was not the approach to take? We have it working this way for one of our projects.
 
Yes, when you user source="servlet", you must configure the source attribute in the remote-objects section of the flex-config.xml. You have to set it to the name of your context. So if your web application context is "localhost:8080/batman", then you must set:
 
<source>batman</source>
 
or for no security at all (don't do this in production):
 
<source>*</source>
 
Dimitrios "Jimmy" Gianninas
RIA Developer
Optimal Payments Inc.
 
From: [email protected] [mailto: [email protected]] On Behalf Of Douglas Knudsen
Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2005 9:51 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Authentication with Macromedia Flex

I was under the impression this was not the approach to take in 1.5.  IIRC, when messing with source= "servlet" I had to add some info to the flex.config file.  Can you comment on this?  Just curious as there seems to be so many ways to do this.

DK

On 9/24/05, Dimitrios Gianninas <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
Ok here is how to do this.
 
Basically you will have a login.jsp page that will authenticate the user using FORM authentication. Once the user has logged in successfully, then you must retrieve the user information from your DB and save it to the session, this might look something like this:
 
UserVO user = userAdmin.getUser( userName );
session.setAttribute( "user", userLogin );
 
Now that the user object is in the session, once the Flex app loads, you can retrieve it from the session and make use of it as you please. First you must declare a RO that will connect with the current session:
 
<mx:RemoteObject id="sessionSvlt" source="servlet"
result= "handleSessionResult( event.result)"
fault= "handleSessionFault(event)"
showBusyCursor="true" />

And then you get the object from the session like so:

sessionSvlt.session( "get", "user" ); 
 
Dimitrios "Jimmy" Gianninas
RIA Developer
Optimal Payments Inc.
 

From: [email protected] [mailto: [email protected]] On Behalf Of jagabcdeff
Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 7:08 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [flexcoders] Authentication with Macromedia Flex

Hi all,

I working on small application.

The flow is like Macromedia Flex<->Spring<->Hibernate<->DB using Jboss
Server.
Now i have to use JAAS to this application.

Please guide me how to do authentication when user login with username
and password .



Thanks & Regards,
Jagan








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