Passing data to custom xlat function

[g4-lisz at tonarchiv.ch]

Wow this was fast.

Thank you Alan for the straightforward answer and the confirmation of
our approach.

Till

On 27.08.21 22:45, Alan DeKok wrote:
> On Aug 27, 2021, at 4:36 PM, g4-lisz at tonarchiv.ch wrote:
>> I wonder if there is a way to "transport" data to an xlat function on
>> another way than attaching it to a Radius request...
>   All data is associated with a request.  Or, it's static in the configuration files.
>
>   There really isn't any other way to do this.
>
>> I'm asking this because we have quite a lot of parameters that we want
>> to be expanded in the module config file.
>>
>> These parameters depend on the user realm. So when a request comes in,
>> our module does a look up in a realm to connection data table. This
>> connection data again is used to make a REST authentication.
>>
>> In the module config we have something like this:
>>
>> uri = "https://%{control:Cust-Gateway}/api/%{control:Cust-App-Id}/etc/..."
>> data =
>> 'grant_type=password&username=%{urlquote:%{control:Cust-Client-Id}}&password=%{urlquote:%{control:Cust-Client-Secret}}'
>>
>> In the authorize function we do the DB call and when the realm is valid
>> we add these custom attributes to the request.
>>
>> This works, but maybe there's a more elegant way than adding attributes
>> to the request only for xla expansion.
>   That's really the best way to do it.
>
>   Alan DeKok.
>
>
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