Hi all,
I've just checked in the notification framework and the corresponding
RT notifier. Here is what you need to if you want to try it out:
- Install RT:
- Download it from bestpractical.com/rt/
- Install the prerequisites (cpan Bundle::RT)
- Configure Apache to use it
- Configure RT:
- Create a new queue for certificate requests (default: Certificate
Signing Requests)
- Create a new user which is allowed to access this queue
- Install RT::Client::REST
- uncomment the notifier line in Realm 1 from openxpki.conf(.in),
redeploy
- copy the notification directory to your config file directory (this
is something that deployment should take care of, if someone could
let me know how to do it, I'll implement it there)
- configure user, password, queue and timeout in notification.xml
- Login as a user which has an e-mail address as a username
- Create a CSR and issue a certificate to see the system working
- Notice that show_instance.html and show_pending_csrs.html link
to the ticket system so that the ticket can be easily accessed from
within OpenXPKI
- Adapt notification.xml and the corresponding txt files in the
notification directory to your liking, translate them, etc.
The rest of the post is probably only interesting for the developers,
as it deals with the implementation.
So, here is how it works internally:
- On server initialization, an OpenXPKI::Server::Notification::Dispatcher
object is created and added to the context, which is then available as
CTX('notification').
- The constructor of this object looks at the configuration and attaches
objects for all configured notifiers.
- If someone calls CTX('notification')->notify(), the dispatcher sends
the notification to all configured notifiers in the current PKI realm.
notify() takes a MESSAGE and a WORKFLOW as parameters. The message
reflects one configuration in the notification.xml that tells the
implementation what actions are done using which template files.
The workflow is used so that its variables can be substituted in the
templates using Template::Toolkit
- notify() in the notifier classes is actually implemented in the
parent class, OpenXPKI::Server::Notification. This class looks at
the configuration to see what actions are to be called, and calls
the __do_<action> methods, that are implemented there as well.
They take care of the Template::Toolkit substition and preparing
the parameters, so that they can be passed on to the <action> method,
which is then implemented in a specific notifier (Notification::RT,
for example).
So much for that. As for the details, just ask or read the source,
I believe it to be pretty readable.
Have a nice weekend,
Regards,
Alex
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