About Indigo Component

LiferayPlugins is a set of Liferay modules for the interaction with INDIGO-DataCloud services. It consist of a set of modules for the authentication using the INDIGO-DATACLOUD IAM service, formerly known as LiferayIAM, module implementing the administration panel for the FutureGateway, formerly known as Admin-portlet, and Customisable application portlet.

In the INDIGO-DATACLOUD infrastructure model, IAM is the central authentication and authorisation service and it has been developed inside the project to support the requirements of the supported communities. It uses OpenID connect protocol for the authentication and OAuth for the authorisation. More details are available in the official documentation. Therefore, all the software tools deployed for the project must accept the IAM token directly or after a translation performed using the Token Translation Service developed in the project.

The FutureGateway is a set of software components managing the application life-cycle on remote infrastructure in Science Gateways. These components are responsible to interact with the remote e-Infrastructures on behalf of the user to execute applications or deploy services.

Liferay is a web application framework and it is the main technology selected inside the Work Package 6 to build the community portals. The functionalities provided by Liferay make easier to build complex portals integrating different applications. These allow users to exploit the services provided by INDIGO-DATACLOUD for their activities. Since the portal will be the access point toward the developed services, users have to get the IAM authorisation tokens on the portal and use it to communicate with other services.

The modules described in this guide add in Liferay the authentication, using OpenID Connect protocol, and the management of the additional information provided by IAM such as the user groups and others. Additionally, the modules made available the access token for application running in the portal, or external to the portal, using the Liferay remote APIs.

The code of the modules is based on some of the modules provided with Liferay 7.0 for the authentication with Facebook and Google and their configuration and management is very similar.