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[Ralf Paffrath <paffrath AT dfn.de>]

On 06 Nov 2015, at 13:31, Stefan Winter 
<stefan.winter AT restena.lu>
 wrote:

> 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)
> 

Could you stop being polemic? Thx.

Greeting Ralf

>> 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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