HI Senthalan,
+1 for the idea,
At the moment we handle this in the authenticator level. So better to get
it into the framework level.
-Ishara
On Sun, Jul 21, 2019 at 5:29 AM Johann Nallathamby <joh...@wso2.com> wrote:
> Hi Senthalan,
>
> In the AbstractAuthenticator interface we have a method as follows:
>
> protected boolean retryAuthenticationEnabled() {}
>
>
> My understanding was that the retry mechanism is enabled per authenticator
> level in the authentication-framework even now. Not sure if we can
> configure the retry count now. Is your idea to make this behavior adaptive?
>
> How would this improvement impact for:
> 1. Authenticators that have implemented "return true" for above method
> 2. Authenticators that have implemented "return false" for above method
> 3. Users who have extended and provided their own implementation
>
> Regards,
> Johann.
>
> On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 7:56 AM Senthalan Kanagalingam <sentha...@wso2.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Currently, in our authentication framework, we force to retry the
>> complete authentication process. With the adaptive authentication script,
>> it will be great if we support force to retry mechanism per step. Let me
>> explain a use-case. There will be 3 steps for authentication. if the 1st
>> and 2nd steps passed successfully and the 3rd step failed the user has to
>> again authenticate with 2nd step to retry the 3rd steps.
>>
>> We can pass a flag in the authentication options parameter (let's say {
>> forceStepRetry : true }) from the script for each excuteStep() method and
>> forced to retry the step in the step handler.
>>
>> function onLoginRequest(context) {
>> executeStep(1, {
>> onSuccess: function (context) {
>> forceRetry(context);
>> }
>> });
>> }
>>
>> function forceRetry(context) {
>>
>> executeStep(2, { forceStepRetry : true }, {
>>
>> onSuccess: function (context){
>>
>> executeStep(3, {
>>
>> onSuccess: function (context){
>>
>> // Logic to execute if step 3 succeeded
>>
>> },
>>
>> onFail: function (context){
>> forceRetry(context);
>> }
>>
>> });
>> }
>> });
>>
>> }
>>
>>
>> Please share your thoughts on this.
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Senthalan
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>>
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