[Catalyst] Catalyst authentication w/ CAS

[David Schmidt]

Have you looked at the test application of the CAS module?

https://metacpan.org/source/KKANE/Catalyst-Authentication-Credential-CAS-0.05/t/lib/MyApp/lib/MyApp.pm

On 9 September 2015 at 05:40, Baron Fujimoto
<catalystframework.org at monkeybutt.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> ObWarning: Total Catalyst noob here. I'm fairly familiar with Perl, but
> am just getting started with Catalyst. I'm more used to back-end, or
> command line type perl applications and utilities, but now I'm trying to
> develop a fairly simple web application and my survey of options turned
> up Catalyst. So far I've run through the tutorials up through
> Authorization at <https://metacpan.org/pod/Catalyst::Manual::Tutorial>,
> though I won't pretend I've grokked most of it yet.
>
> One of the reasons I've decided to try Catalyst, is that I would like to
> authenticate the app's users with JASIG's CAS, and I noted that there's a
> Catalyst::Authentication::Credential::CAS module.
>
> Is there a more fleshed out example of using this than in the metacpan
> documentation?
>
> I'm starting with trying to add CAS authentication to what is basically
> the Tutorial's Hello World app at the end of
> <https://metacpan.org/pod/Catalyst::Manual::Tutorial::02_CatalystBasics>
>
> Per the Authentication tutorial and the documentation for
> Catalyst::Authentication::Credential::CAS, I have the following in
> lib/MyApp.pm:
>
>
> use Catalyst qw/
>     -Debug
>     ConfigLoader
>     Static::Simple
>
>     StackTrace
>
>     Authentication
>
>     Session
>     Session::Store::File
>     Session::State::Cookie
> /;
>
> ...
> # modified to match the style in the AuthN tutorial
> __PACKAGE__->config(
>     'Plugin::Authentication' => {
>         default_realm => 'default',
>         default => {
>             credential => {
>                 class          => 'CAS',
>                 uri            => 'https://cas.example.com/cas',
>                 #username_field => 'username', # optional
>                 #version        => '2.0',      # optional
>             },
>         },
>         #store => {
>         #  ...
>         #},
>     },
> );
>
> And in lib/MyApp/Controller/Root.pm:
>
> When the development server reloads, I get the following output:
>
> [debug] Debug messages enabled
> [debug] Statistics enabled
> [debug] Loaded Config ".../MyApp/myapp.conf"
> [debug] Setting up auth realm default
> [debug] No Store specified for realm "default", using the Null store.
> Global symbol "$c" requires explicit package name at
> +.../MyApp/script/../lib/MyApp/Controller/Root.pm line 74.
> Global symbol "$c" requires explicit package name at
> +.../MyApp/script/../lib/MyApp/Controller/Root.pm line 74.
> Global symbol "$c" requires explicit package name at
> +.../MyApp/script/../lib/MyApp/Controller/Root.pm line 75.
> Global symbol "$c" requires explicit package name at
> +.../MyApp/script/../lib/MyApp/Controller/Root.pm line 76.
> BEGIN not safe after errors--compilation aborted at
> +.../MyApp/script/../lib/MyApp/Controller/Root.pm line 79.
>
> I had commented out 'store' in the Plugin::Authentication config hash
> since I wasn't sure what to use there yet, and at least it seems nominally
> ok with a "Null" store for now.
>
> I'm not sure why the global symbol errors though, since since $c is used
> in the other methods.
>
> I apologize for what are probably very basic questions, but I would
> appreciate any guidance here.
>
> Aloha,
> -baron
>
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