feat: improve the way we handle the IES IDP id values.

common/djangoapps/third_party_auth/pipeline.py

@@ -964,13 +964,7 @@ def user_details_force_sync(auth_entry, strategy, details, user=None, *args, **k
                 setattr(model, field, provider_value)
 
         # Generate fullname only for IES IDP.
-        # We deliberately left these values hard-coded instead of using Django settings because
-        # it would force us to add custom settings to the edx platform code,
-        # which we try to avoid as we might lose track of that kind of setting.
-        ies_entity_ids = [
-            'https://iam-stage.pearson.com:443/auth/saml-idp-uid',
-            'https://iam.pearson.com:443/auth/saml-idp-uid',
-        ]
+        ies_entity_ids = getattr(settings, 'SAML_IES_ENTITIES_IDS', [])
         first_name = details.get('first_name')
         last_name = details.get('last_name')
 

lms/envs/common.py

@@ -5312,3 +5312,17 @@ def _should_send_learning_badge_events(settings):
     "learning-badges-lifecycle",
     "enabled",
 )
+
+# IES SAML integration.
+# .. setting_name: SAML_IES_ENTITIES_IDS
+# .. setting_default: []
+# .. setting_example_value: ['https://my-idp-integration-uri-id']
+# .. setting_description: This configuration allows us to define the IDs of the IES entities, to perform certain actions to the SAML IES request only.
+#    adding a new step to SOCIAL_AUTH_PIPELINE (edx-platform/common/djangoapps/third_party_auth/settings.py)
+#    is not a feasible option, since we can't override the SOCIAL_AUTH_PIPELINE from the Django or other plugin configuration,
+#    so we decided to handle it this way and add the necessary logic, directly in the edx-platform code
+#    edx-platform/common/djangoapps/third_party_auth/pipeline.py
+#    We will define the requried values using our Tutor plugin.
+#    Entity ID docs:
+#    https://edx.readthedocs.io/projects/edx-installing-configuring-and-running/en/latest/configuration/tpa/tpa_integrate_open/tpa_SAML_IdP.html#add-and-enable-a-saml-identity-provider
+SAML_IES_ENTITIES_IDS = []