Replace username picker with a template (#9275)

There's some prelimiary work here to pull out the construction of a jinja environment to a separate function.

I wanted to load the template at display time rather than load time, so that it's easy to update on the fly. Honestly, I think we should do this with all our templates: the risk of ending up with malformed templates is far outweighed by the improved turnaround time for an admin trying to update them.

1 files changed, 31 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/docs/sample_config.yaml b/docs/sample_config.yaml

index 05506a7787..a6fbcc6080 100644
--- a/docs/sample_config.yaml
+++ b/docs/sample_config.yaml
@@ -1801,7 +1801,8 @@ saml2_config:
 #
 #             localpart_template: Jinja2 template for the localpart of the MXID.
 #                 If this is not set, the user will be prompted to choose their
-#                 own username.
+#                 own username (see 'sso_auth_account_details.html' in the 'sso'
+#                 section of this file).
 #
 #             display_name_template: Jinja2 template for the display name to set
 #                 on first login. If unset, no displayname will be set.
@@ -1968,6 +1969,35 @@ sso:
     #
     #     * idp: the 'idp_id' of the chosen IDP.
     #
+    # * HTML page to prompt new users to enter a userid and confirm other
+    #   details: 'sso_auth_account_details.html'. This is only shown if the
+    #   SSO implementation (with any user_mapping_provider) does not return
+    #   a localpart.
+    #
+    #   When rendering, this template is given the following variables:
+    #
+    #     * server_name: the homeserver's name.
+    #
+    #     * idp: details of the SSO Identity Provider that the user logged in
+    #       with: an object with the following attributes:
+    #
+    #         * idp_id: unique identifier for the IdP
+    #         * idp_name: user-facing name for the IdP
+    #         * idp_icon: if specified in the IdP config, an MXC URI for an icon
+    #              for the IdP
+    #         * idp_brand: if specified in the IdP config, a textual identifier
+    #              for the brand of the IdP
+    #
+    #     * user_attributes: an object containing details about the user that
+    #       we received from the IdP. May have the following attributes:
+    #
+    #         * display_name: the user's display_name
+    #         * emails: a list of email addresses
+    #
+    #   The template should render a form which submits the following fields:
+    #
+    #     * username: the localpart of the user's chosen user id
+    #
     # * HTML page for a confirmation step before redirecting back to the client
     #   with the login token: 'sso_redirect_confirm.html'.
     #