Alison Schofield <alison.schofield@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > If a preparse routine handles all the above, then if any of the > above failures occur, the key service has less backing out to do. > Is that the point? Yes. Ideally, ->instantiate() would never fail. > How do I make the connection between the preparse and the instantiate? > Do I just put what I need to remember about this key request in the > payload.data during preparse, so I can examine it again during > instantiate? Have a look at user_preparse(). It attaches the contribution to the supplied key_preparsed_payload struct, which is then passed to ->instantiate() and ->update() as appropriate. generic_key_instantiate() is used by the user key type. David
