[SHIRO-228] Provide way to use TextConfigurationRealm without extending it (i.e. an init method which calls processDefinitions)

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Cannot Reproduce
• Affects Version/s: 1.1.0
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Daniel Diephouse
• Created: 01/Jan/11 23:58
• Updated: 05/Oct/16 20:10
• Resolved: 05/Oct/16 20:10

Description

I was trying to use the TextConfigurationRealm inside Spring for tests with the following configuration:

<spring:bean id="myRealm" class="org.apache.shiro.realm.text.TextConfigurationRealm">
<spring:property name="userDefinitions">
<spring:value>
test=test
</spring:value>
</spring:property>
</spring:bean>

However, there doesn't seem to be a way to call out to processDefinitions unless you extend this class. IMO there should be a default onInit method calls processDefinitions. Otherwise this class should be marked as abstract because it's currently useless unless you extend it.