[aerogear-dev] Authentication endpoints

[Lucas Holmquist]

On Oct 4, 2012, at 8:54 AM, Kris Borchers <kris at redhat.com> wrote:

> 
> On Oct 4, 2012, at 7:51 AM, Lucas Holmquist <lholmqui at redhat.com> wrote:
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>> even though the URL doesn't matter, we should probably keep the function and endpoint the same, just for consistency and simplicity for the application dev.
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> I don't agree. In JS, the endpoint is completely configurable so it doesn't matter. The user could have the method register() point at /LOOOOOOOOOOOL/BOOM if they wanted to so I don't think the method names need to match the endpoints.
> 

Thats true,  brain fart

>> 
>> and they should be consistent across the lib's so if someone who used aerogear.js decides to become an iOS programmer and uses Aerogear.dmg(or whatever it's called), then they already know the api
> 
> I do agree however that what ever we decide, we should try to be consistent in our method naming across libs.
> 
>> 
>> -luke
>> 
>> 
>> On Oct 4, 2012, at 8:25 AM, Matthias Wessendorf <matzew at apache.org> wrote:
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>>> On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Bruno Oliveira <bruno at abstractj.org> wrote:
>>>> Morning guys, I was talking with Matthias this morning about our
>>>> authentication endpoints, he brought up a important concern.
>>>> 
>>>> Currently we have:
>>>> 
>>>> /auth/register, /auth/login, /auth/logout. The problem here is about
>>>> 'register', a reserved word in some programming languages like Objective C.
>>> 
>>> the endpoint URLs are not an issue (just a URL).
>>> 
>>> But I can't name an iOS/ObjC function 'register'
>>> 
>>> -M
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Alternatives:
>>>> 
>>>> - Change 'register', to 'registration'
>>>> - Change the endpoints to signin, signout, signup.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Wdyt? Suggestions?
>>>> 
>>>> 
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