How to develop content server auth plugin?

Hi,

I'm playing with authentication plugin which is included with content server and located somewhere in c:\documentum\product\****\install.... I have successfully compiled this sampleauth plugin and tested.

But the problem is, how to test the plugin during development without deploying and restarting content server?

Does someone has experience with developing those plugins in C++? Or does someone has some more documentation for this.

Thanks (a loooot),

Vladimir

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agboan

Vladimir

If you have a plugin that you want to test, without using content server, you should be able to do that by invoking the plugin code in a standalone program.

For example, if you have a plugin that connects to XYZ system, you can write a standalone C++ program which contains your plugin code. That plugin code would simulate the usage of your functions which connect to the XYZ system.

The plugin that loads into the content server has some functions which are expected to be defined, and the plugin is loaded into content server memory the first time the plugin is invoked, so if you were to test the plugin through the content server, you would need to stop the content server, put in the new plugin file, and restart the content server.

thanks

agboan

vladimir.hr

Hi Agboan,

thanks for your answer. I already have my test plugin done. Yes, it it as you said: the content server has to be each time restarted to have actual compiled version running.

I've developed a "business" logic outside plugin as some utility code and debugged etc. Then I've put this code into example (sampleauth) plugin into dm_authenticate_user (const void *inPropBag, void *outPropBag) function, and it really works!