How do I use my own Custom Auth/Authentication/Entitlement (Token)?

Question

[ Background ]
Adobe Access DRM provides for 3 authentication mechanisms:
Anonymous - Licenses are issued irregardless on if there is/isn't a valid authentication token attached to the license request.
UsernamePassword - Licenses are ONLY issued if the license request has a valid Adobe-Access-Server-Issued authentication token.
Custom - Licenses are ONLY issued if there is a valid cusom authentication token attached to the license request.
Typically, customers already have some authentication scheme in place and choose to re-use that system, instead of leveraging Adobe Access' built-in usernamePassword support.  For this to succeed, accomodations must be made during packaging time, on the client device, and at the Adobe Access license server endpoint.
[ More Background ]
Here's a forum thread that prompted this thread: http://forums.adobe.com/message/5085330#5085330
[ Recipe ]
1. Adobe Access DRM Policy is created that specifies a "custom" authentication token.  As of Adobe Access 4.0, the tools that ship with the Java SDK cannot create a DRM policy with "custom" authentication out the box; a small Java application will have to be written to do this, which is covered in the thread posted above.
2. Content is packaged using this custom_auth policy.
3. Client device performs authentication via whatever channel already exists for you to perform authentication (e.g. SAML tokens, etc...)
4. Client device sets the authentication token: DRMManager.setAuthenticationToken()
5. Client device attempts to acquire a license for the content created in step #2: DRMManager.loadVoucher();
5a) Because step #4 set the authentication, all license requests going forward will automatically have this custom auth token appended to it
6. License server receives request & extracts custom auth token to parse & perform additional entitlement checks
7. Licnese server generates a license to return to client device.
[ Server Code Snippet (RefImplLicenseReqHandler.java) ]
try {
  ServletInputStream in = request.getInputStream();
  ServletOutputStream out = response.getOutputStream();
  HandlerConfiguration context = super.getHandlerContext();
  ServerCredential licenseServerCred = getLicenseParams().getLicenseServerCred();
  licenseHandler = new LicenseHandler(context, in, out, licenseServerCred);
  licenseHandler.parseRequest();
  List<? extends LicenseRequestMessage> requests = licenseHandler.getRequests();
  // Multiple request in one message is not supported in FAXS 2.0 or 3.0 client.
  for (LicenseRequestMessage licenseReq : requests) {
     try {
  // TODO: If custom authentication is specified in the DRM policy, here is where
  // you can retrieve the custom authentication token and perform custom parsing to
  // determine further business rules and entitlement before issuing a license.
  // The "Custom Authentication" will look like:
  // 1. Client device obtains auth token using some other channel
  // 2. Client device sets auth token by calling DRMManager.setAuthenticationToken()
  // 3. Client makes a license request by calling DRMManager.loadVoucher()
  // 4. Adobe Access Server receives request and:
  // 4a) Determines Custom Auth is required by DRM Policy: licenseReq.getContentInfo().getContentMetadata().getPolicies()[0].getLicenseServerInfo(). getAuthenticationType();
  // 4b) Retrieves Custom Auth token for custom parsing/handling: licenseReq.getRawAuthenticationToken()
  // 5. If there are no errors when parsing the custom token, Adobe Access Server generates a license.
                                                  V2ContentMetaData metadata = licenseReq.getContentInfo().getContentMetadata();
                                                  ApplicationProperties applicationProperties = null;
                                                  String usageModelString = null;
                                                  if (metadata != null) {
                                                            applicationProperties = metadata.getCustomProperties();
                                                            if (applicationProperties != null) {
                                                                      usageModelString = applicationProperties.getSingleValueAsUTF8String(DEMOMODE);
cheers,
/Eric.

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