[Catalyst] progressive authentication via db & LDAP

[Tomas Doran]

On 26 Jan 2011, at 13:48, piccard wrote:

>
>> You set it in the config, you implement a check_password method in  
>> your user object (which goes and checks the password from LDAP),  
>> you're done.
>
>
> For anybody who is working on the same problem, this solution worked  
> 4 me:
>
> + set the extended classin the config via the store_user_class-key
>

I don't think you even need to go that far..

The DBIx::Class::User module will delegate any unknown methods onto  
your user row..

So you should just be able to add your check_password method onto the  
row object, without having a custom user_class..

Then you get the initial advantage I was promoting (i.e. your database  
model is internally consistent, and you can use check_password outside  
of a Catalyst context if you want to), and you have less code...

Cheers
t0m