Support SAML auth

[dmcassel]

I've been trying to get a grove-based application to use SAML and have run into difficulties. The MarkLogic Node.js Client API can handle SAML, but Grove doesn't use that. auth-helper.js relies on www-authenticate, but it looks like that library doesn't support SAML.

Is there any documentation or an example somewhere that could help with this?

[grtjn]

I am afraid not. Have you tried pushing SAML auth down to MarkLogic? SAML support in 10.0-5 seems reasonable, and I have been told it can work as transparently as LDAP in MarkLogic.

[grtjn]

That said, if you really want to do it in grove-node, you might be able to leverage https://www.npmjs.com/package/passport-saml. The www-authenticate lib is used in combination with passport-local, to provide a customized digest auth scheme (originating from slush-marklogic-node). Then again, you still need to authenticate and connect to ML as well. Doing SAML inside MarkLogic would simplify this.