[aerogear-dev] Removing Auth dependency from Pipeline

Matthias Wessendorf matzew at apache.org
Tue Feb 12 07:49:49 EST 2013


Ah,

so, to give a summary:

- only AG.ajax is removed
- API stays untouched

?

-Matthias


On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 7:42 AM, Kris Borchers <kris at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Feb 12, 2013, at 6:29 AM, Matthias Wessendorf <matzew at apache.org> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 7:20 AM, Kris Borchers <kris at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Feb 12, 2013, at 2:28 AM, Matthias Wessendorf <matzew at apache.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> +1 on removing the AeroGear.ajax, and using plain jQuery
>>>>
>>>> I am not sure if it is really a good idea to have the Authenticator
>>>> become a "global management object for the pipes.
>>>> I think it makes sense to give a pipe it's authModule...
>>>>
>>>> Was the auth dependency change something that was driven by removing
>>>> the AG.ajax bits? If so, I'd like to understand the why/how.
>>> Not initially. First, the idea was that we (Luke and I) wanted to remove that dependency to allow more flexibility in building custom downloads. I wanted to be able to download Pipeline without Auth
>>> since IMO we can't currently do that because then documented functionality in Pipeline won't work.
>>
>> So, what's the benefit? IMO auth is kinda very tied to the pipes. Vice
>> versa, why would one download the 'auth' bits w/o the pipe? Just
>> because of file-size ?
> It was actually about being able to download the Pipeline bits without Auth which IMO should not be allowed (even if we do allow it now we should change it) because then there is a documented option that won't work which should be obvious but you know people will try to use it. And yes, it's because of file size which is very important in the JS world. It's not a huge difference right now but as the library grows, people will want the flexibility to remove any bits they don't need to keep that size down.
>>
>>
>>> In the process, I realized that the dependency was just going to be reversed and after the PR was discussed a bit other issues were found and the motivation switched to removing AeroGear.ajax for
>>> simplicity and smaller file size.
>>
>> I totally understand the AG.ajax removal, but not really how that
>> relates to the auth API swap (It shouldn't at all).
> Basically I think it was my mind wandering I guess. It started as a discussion on removing AeroGear.ajax, the process of that discussion led to wanting to remove that dependency and I guess I merged those efforts. My followup PR only focuses on removing AeroGear.ajax and leaves the API untouched based on discussions we had at the F2F.
>>
>> Perhaps I just don't understand something simple and very obvious.
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Kris Borchers <kris at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> In https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AEROGEAR-858, I propose a change to the
>>>>> APIs of both Pipeline and Auth when creating new pipes or auth modules. What
>>>>> this change does is change the dependency from Pipeline depending on Auth to
>>>>> only the Auth rest adapter depending on Pipeline. So what does this get us?
>>>>>
>>>>> A narrower dependency between Auth and Pipeline
>>>>> Removal of AeroGear.ajax and instead build directly on top of jQuery.ajax
>>>>> which in turn gives us a much smaller file size (important for JS)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I would appreciate other thoughts on this. There are some issues with my
>>>>> current PR (https://github.com/aerogear/aerogear-js/pull/21) but I think I
>>>>> have solutions so once I update that PR I would appreciate feedback on that
>>>>> as well.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>>
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