4. AA plugin development

The AAPlugin base class enables rapid authentication and authorization plugin development by providing a base class that implements common AA plugin functionality that any AA plugin should possess. There are also helper functions and Python decorators for simplifying frequent tasks.

• 4.1. Common configuration options
• 4.2. Plugin development
  • 4.2.1. Administrative tasks
  • 4.2.2. Basic functionality
  • 4.2.3. Pre-defined attributes on self
  • 4.2.4. Asking the end-user
  • 4.2.5. Using cookies
  • 4.2.6. Setting gateway user and groups
  • 4.2.7. Setting additional meta data
  • 4.2.8. Avoiding costly calculations
  • 4.2.9. Adding to the constructor
  • 4.2.10. Authentication cache
  • 4.2.11. Altering the steps
• 4.3. Plugin response
• 4.4. Connection information
• 4.5. AAPlugin
  • 4.5.1. AAPlugin way of working
  • 4.5.2. AAPlugin methods and attributes