How to fill roles in custom authenticator?

[kroessi]

Hi all,

following the article http://community.jboss.org/wiki/WebAuthenticationUsingHTTPRequestParameters we are trying to implement a custom authenticator which receives username, roles and some other attributes as request attributes. We used GenericHeaderAuthenticator as a sample.

We already managed to login the user, but we do not get the roles into the Subject (we do not know how to access the Subject either).

Here a code snippet

{code}
 public class SSOAuthenticator extends FormAuthenticator {

    @Override
    public boolean authenticate(Request request, Response response, LoginConfig config) throws java.io.IOException {

  SSOPrincipal principal = new SSOPrincipal();
        principal.setRole((String) request.getAttribute("Role"));
        principal.setUserName((String) request.getAttribute("Username"));

        request.setUserPrincipal(principal);
        register(request, response,
                principal, Constants.FORM_METHOD,
                principal.getUserName(), null);

  return principal.isCompletete();
 }
}
  {code}

Can anyone give us a hint how to do this?

Thanks and best regards,

Katja