Tool Provider Private Methods

[jkm9000]

Hello, thanks for this fork. I'm doing my first implementation of LTI and was glad to come across this since the original is now abandoned.

I am trying to integrate this into an existing Symfony application and it's a bit of a challenge using the ToolProvider class. I'm still very early on but what's hanging me up comes down to being unable to override some of these private methods.

For example, result() directly calls header() to redirect, and other times it does inline echo statements. That makes it very hard to try and pass data to views, add logging, etc.

At first I thought about using output buffering to capture the echos but the inline header() calls make that problematic.

I could just fork this repository and handle it that way, but I thought maybe others could benefit. Is there a good reason to keep these private? Has anyone else integrated this into a framework like Symfony and worked around this in other ways?

Thanks much!

[Izumi-kun]

In current implementation you can override handleRequest method and replace result call with something you needed.

[jkm9000]

Thanks. Unfortunately, authenticate() is also a private method so looks like I would have to implement that as well. If these methods were protected instead, it would be a lot easier to work with.

If that's not something you're willing to do, I can always just make a fork.

[Izumi-kun]

Agree. PR is merged. Thanks!

[jkm9000]

Great, thanks!