[Trac] Reconfiguring / Overriding trac variables

[Danny W. Adair]

Hi Noah,

thanks for the pointer. That looks simple indeed.

Cheers,
Danny

On 4/27/06, kantrn at rpi.edu <kantrn at rpi.edu> wrote:
>
> Writting such a plugin is very trivial, just look at how the TracCas
> plugin on trac-hacks works.
>
> --Noah
>
> ==============Original message text===============
> On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 1:49:37 EDT "Danny W. Adair" wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm integrating trac with a couple of other things (incl. Zope), using the
> Apache module mod_auth_tkt for single sign-on.
> My login/logout pages also take care of the trac cookies, and all of this
> actually works great!
>
> However, the "metanav navigation" in trac is not hardcoded anymore (I'm
> using 0.9.4 now), and I couldn't find an easy way to override the existing
> login/logout URLs.
> My current workaround is to change the "chrome.nav.metanav" items inside
> the
> header template, just before the menu bar is generated by nav():
>
> <?cs # Mangle navigation items for customized authentication ?>
> <?cs if:trac.authname == "anonymous" || !trac.authname ?>
> <?cs set:chrome.nav.metanav.login = 'logged in as ' + trac.authname ?>
> <?cs set:chrome.nav.metanav.logout = '<a href="/logout">Logout</a>'  ?>
> <?cs else ?>
> <?cs set:chrome.nav.metanav.login = 'not logged in' ?>
> <?cs set:chrome.nav.metanav.logout = '<a href="/login">Login</a>' ?>
> <?cs /if ?>
>
> That's not only ugly, it poses two other problems:
> 1. The actual trac variables trac.href.login/logout - from which metanav
> seems to be built - remain the same: if they are used somewhere else they
> will have the wrong value
> 2. I had to swap login and logout to make it prettier - adding to the
> confusion - because Clearsilver only knows "set", not "unset"/"del".
> Rebuilding the whole list seemed insane.
>
> Is there a way - let's say in trac.ini - to redefine trac.href.login
> /logout?
> Do I really have to write a plugin that replaces (though inherits 99% of)
> the existing login module?
>
> All I want to do is change the URLs - the actual auth is sorted!
>
> Cheers,
> Danny
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>
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