6. 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.

• 6.1. Common configuration options
• 6.2. Plugin development
  • 6.2.1. Administrative tasks
  • 6.2.2. Basic functionality
  • 6.2.3. Pre-defined attributes on self
  • 6.2.4. Asking the end-user
  • 6.2.5. Using cookies
  • 6.2.6. Setting gateway user and groups
  • 6.2.7. Setting additional meta data
  • 6.2.8. Avoiding costly calculations
  • 6.2.9. Adding to the constructor
  • 6.2.10. Authentication cache
  • 6.2.11. Altering the steps
• 6.3. Plugin response
• 6.4. Connection information
• 6.5. AAPlugin
  • 6.5.1. AAPlugin way of working
  • 6.5.2. AAPlugin methods and attributes