Comments on: Authentication plugin released

By: Mathias Hoeschen

Mathias Hoeschen — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:27:24 +0000

I tried to use a different domain class adding this to Config.groovy:

authenticationUserClass = MyOwnUserClass

But still the AuthenticationUser class is used.

The fix mentioned on this page (second comment at the bottom) http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GRAILS/Authentication+Plugin is working for me, too.

By: Marc Palmer

Marc Palmer — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:54:39 +0000

Shawn… no it should be fine. Please try running with the 1.1 snapshot in SVN. That mechanism does not use anything special in 1.1 nor in 1.0 as far as I recall – it just accesses the session.

If no joy mail me your code – see author info in the AuthenticationGrailsPlugin.groovy file.

By: Shawn

Shawn — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:10:29 +0000

Is there a trick to using the filter example? I keep getting an exception because there isn’t a request available when the filter is loaded:

if (!applicationContext.authenticationService.isLoggedIn(request)) {

Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: No thread-bound request found: Are you referring to request attributes outside of an actual web request?

By: Justin Beck

Justin Beck — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:51:00 +0000

Ha! Never mind…

This works: ‘grails install-plugin authentication 1.0′

By: Justin Beck

Justin Beck — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:49:35 +0000

I’m using the 1.0.3 SNAPSHOT of Grails and the command ‘grails install-plugin authentication’ doesn’t work for me.

I get this: Latest release information is not available for plugin ‘authentication’, specify concrete release to install

Can I download a zip of the plugin from somewhere so I can just install from a local copy?

Thanks!

By: danb

danb — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:27:24 +0000

oops… wordpress doesn’t escape < for me… that end of that last comment is:

“not bad for < 30 lines of code! next step is making it role aware and I’ll be golden.”

By: danb

danb — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:25:59 +0000

Thanks Marc, you might want to make note of that in the docs.. I had no idea

After I got the plugin working last night I added a @Secure annotation to my project… now I can tag any controller or controller action method I want to require authentication with @Secure and my filter picks it up and does the auth check… not bad for

By: Marcel Overdijk

Marcel Overdijk — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:30:47 +0000

Great plugin. I was working on some OpenID integration for authentication and was also thinking about creating a plugin from it. Your plugin gives me a lot of ideas!

By: Marc Palmer

Marc Palmer — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 06:55:26 +0000

danb: This is a bug in Grails 1.0.2 which fails to make plugin views available at runtime. You need to copy them over for now, sorry.

By: danb

danb — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 04:26:15 +0000

The only plugin I have used so far is quartz, which has no UI and I’m not sure how that stuff is supposed to work. So forgive me if I’m missing something obvious… but when I install this plugin, I cannot hit http://localhost:8080/myapp/authentication unless I manually copy “authentication/index.jsp” into my project’s “views” dir… once I’ve done that, everything appears to work just fine.

I do end up with the gsp files in “myapp/web-app/plugins/authentication-1.0/grails-app/views” after installation… but that didn’t seem to help much.

thanks!
dan