Generating XML from flow for auth-fw

[Steve Schwarz <sa...@hotmail.com>]

Hi
I've written some flowscript to perform login validation using OJB and on 
success I end up with a populated bean. I then call sendPage() to a pipeline 
that uses JXPathGenerator along with the bean to create the XML that meets 
the needs of the authentication framework.

My problem is that while the auth-fw invokes my flow appropriately to 
validate the login, my calling sendPage() provides the output XML directly 
to the browser. The auth-fw needs be to return XML directly to it.

I looked in PipelineAuthenticator.java and it's authenticate() method is 
performing:
                source = SourceUtil.getSource(authenticationResourceName, 
null,
                                              parameters, this.resolver);
                doc = SourceUtil.toDOM(source);
on my validation flow pipeline.

Can someone give me an idea how I can either:
- invoke a pipeline from within flow with my bean whose output is returned 
to the flow caller instead of sent to the browser.
- how to directly return XML from within flow (I can have Castor marshal my 
bean if I have to).

The auth-fw flow example just reads the login info from an XML file on disk 
with an appropriate stylesheet to retrieve only the desired login info (or 
none as appropriate); so it doesn't cover this scenario.

Thanks for any pointers,
Steve

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