CAS Authentication

[mur-wtag]

Optional CAS authentication added to bookyt

• gem devise_cas_authenticatable added
• Configuration added for CAS authentication
• Configuration added for extra-attributes

Documentation

Authentcation

You can decide between two authentication mechanisms: Database Authentication, database_authenticatable (default) and CAS Authentication cas_authenticatable.

Database Authentication

For Database Authentication, no changes are needed.

CAS Authentication

If you go for CAS Authentication, set devise_backend to cas_authenticatable and make sure to set cas_base_url.

To handle the extra attributes, add a class named CASExtraAttributesMapper which responds to .call. For example:

class CASExtraAttributesMapper
  def self.call(extra_attributes, user)
    extra_attributes.each do |name, value|
      case name.to_sym
      when :full_name
        user.fullname = value
      when :roles
        user.role_texts = [value.split(',')].flatten
      end
      # And so on for other attributes
    end
  end
end

[luxflux]

@huerlisi these are the changes we did to the codebase to add support for CAS authentication. Are you interested into such features?

[huerlisi]

Nice!

I don't think I'll ever need it or can even test it, but I'm more than happy to take this valuable contribution!

I'll look into it in the next couple days.

[luxflux]

@huerlisi were you able to have a look into it? Otherwise I'm going to merge it during the next days.

[huerlisi]

I've fixed a conflict in the merge request. It look all good from my side.

Thanks a lot for this.