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[Stefan Winter <stefan.winter AT restena.lu>]

Hi,

> From a usability perspective I think it is an OK compromise, if it
> achieves the goal of allowing multiple CAT instances to be used by a
> single Android app.

I guess it's a question of taste to consider this a good compromise or
not. I don't, but I'm not a dictator as well :-)

> It doesn't need to be $OBSCURE_URL, the registry
> could be populated with a title, description...[1] also localized
> versions of all that, so the app user can search for and select
> something that does makes sense to them.

The list would look necessarily "funny" right now:

1) Planet Earth except Germany
2) Germany

(and maybe 3) TEST as per your excellent comment below)

> The registry could even have
> disco hints, which perhaps may allow automatic selection of an instance,
> somewhat similar to auto-discovery of IdP.
> 
> It's just another layer of metadata :)

Yes; the question is if such a layer makes sense.

Also, keep in mind that such a "hack" will only do some good for this
specific Android app case (and even there only partially). When it comes
to user diagnostics another hack would need to be added, and so on. This
is not proper design!

Anyway: if someone is interested in providing code for this, patches are
welcome. The Android app is Apache 2 licensed.

[Probably for everything but the "automatic selection" - I don't think
this can be made to work reliably]

Greetings,

Stefan Winter

> Such a thing would also come in handy if you want to test something on,
> say, cat-test.eduroam.org, although I recall that profiles can be fed
> manually to the Android app (opened manually with the app).
> 
> Cheers,
> Z.
> 
> [1] I suppose a CAT API version/level may also be necessary eventually.
> 


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