Webflow Customization
CAS uses Spring Webflow to do script processing of login and logout protocols. Spring Web Flow builds on Spring MVC and allows implementing the “flows” of a web application. A flow encapsulates a sequence of steps that guide a user through the execution of some business task. It spans multiple HTTP requests, has state, deals with transactional data, is reusable, and may be dynamic and long-running in nature. Each flow may contain among many other settings the following major elements:
- Actions: components that describe an executable task and return back a result
- Transitions: Routing the flow from one state to another; Transitions may be global to the entire flow.
- Views: Components that describe the presentation layer displayed back to the client
- Decisions: Components that conditionally route to other areas of flow and can make logical decisions
Spring Web Flow presents CAS with a pluggable architecture where custom actions, views and decisions may be injected into the flow to account for additional use cases and processes. Note that to customize the webflow, one must possess a reasonable level of understanding of the webflow internals and injection policies. The intention of this document is NOT to describe Spring Web Flow, but merely to demonstrate how the framework is used by CAS to carry out various aspects of the protocol and business logic execution.
Webflow Session
See this guide for more info.
Webflow Auto Configuration
Most CAS modules, when declared as a dependency, attempt to autoconfigure the CAS webflow to suit their needs. This practically means that the CAS adopter would no longer have to manually massage the CAS webflow configuration, and the module automatically takes care of all required changes. While this is the default behavior, it is possible that you may want to manually handle all such changes. For doing so, you will need to disable the CAS auto-configuration of the webflow.
The following settings and properties are available from the CAS configuration catalog:
cas.webflow.auto-configuration.enabled=true
Whether webflow auto-configuration should be enabled.
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cas.webflow.auto-configuration.order=0
The order in which the webflow is configured.
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