[midPoint] Example AMQP / Async resource?

[Pavol Mederly]

Hello Richard,

very well!

You could also have a look at this one: 
https://wiki.evolveum.com/display/midPoint/ITSM+Plugin. I have no 
experiences with this plugin but I think it could be relevant.

Best regards,

Pavol Mederly
Software developer
evolveum.com

On 27/03/2020 21:55, Richard Frovarp wrote:
> Thanks for the answer. I'm quite good at banging my head against
> things, so long as I know it is possible. I'll take a peak at the
> manual resource bit to see if that could possibly help. The DB work
> around is probably my best bet.
>
> The Internet 2 documentation on the TIER package isn't exactly the most
> clear about AMQP operations. It makes it seem as though midPoint can
> provision via AMQP, AND that Grouper can get additions through AMQP.
> And it appears that neither are true. I'll see if I have enough karma
> to edit, otherwise will find someone to fix the page I found.
>
> Thanks again,
> Richard
>
> On Fri, 2020-03-27 at 21:50 +0100, Pavol Mederly wrote:
>> Hello Richard,
>>
>> you're right -- Grouper AMQP connector (and any existing AMQP support
>> in
>> midPoint as well) is used solely to transfer data from external
>> system
>> (Grouper) to midPoint.
>>
>> When considering the other way (from midPoint to external systems),
>> we
>> have no explicit support for messaging now.
>>
>> As described here
>> (https://wiki.evolveum.com/display/midPoint/Messaging+Resources) the
>> expected approach would be to implement something similar to manual
>> resource connector we have in midPoint now. But it's not quite easy,
>> considering you are new to midPoint, as you said.
>>
>> The preferred option is to contact us to develop this kind of
>> connector
>> for you, or the other way is to use a kind of fallback you are
>> thinking
>> about. If it's a temporary solution, (before converting all your
>> resources to directly interface midPoint), then it could be
>> acceptable.
>> I think.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Pavol Mederly
>> Software developer
>> evolveum.com
>>
>> On 27/03/2020 21:32, Richard Frovarp wrote:
>>> Are there any examples or documentation for any sort of async
>>> provisioning resources? I know that there is the read one for
>>> Grouper,
>>> but I'm also looking for something that could create and update
>>> accounts. Maybe following the Grouper example I could get that to
>>> work,
>>> I'm just not sure. I am exceptionally new to midPoint. A hint of
>>> what
>>> class to extend would be helpful.
>>>
>>> Our custom engineered IAM solution does all of its work via
>>> RabbitMQ.
>>> Given my current time constraints to get off of that one, I don't
>>> see
>>> it practical that I can switch all of our resources that store
>>> accounts
>>> over to custom resources. I am better off in the short term
>>> leveraging
>>> the existing code that I have, some of which is in Perl, than
>>> trying to
>>> go full into midPoint. That is why I am trying to follow the path
>>> of
>>> AMQP. I think my fallback would be to have midPoint write to a DB,
>>> have
>>> a separate process monitor for updates there, and emit messages.
>>> Hoping
>>> for something a bit more elegant.
>>>
>>> Thanks for any and all suggestions.
>>>
>>> Richard
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