[aerogear-dev] Auth Authz and OAuth

Corinne Krych corinnekrych at gmail.com
Mon Jan 6 10:48:44 EST 2014


Agreed. We could find a common way to treat both tokens and apply them.
Make a proposal for android and I'll create a JIRA for iOS. 
this is at implementation level though and should not affect interfaces.
Different interfaces still needed for auth and authz though.

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Corinne
On Jan 6, 2014, at 4:39 PM, Summers Pittman <supittma at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Mon 06 Jan 2014 10:36:32 AM EST, Corinne Krych wrote:
>> Summers,
>> 
>> Do you mean, should we refactor and treat authToken and accessTokens in a similar way for the implementation of OAuth2?
> 
> Yes.  That is what I am proposing.
> 
>> 
>> ++
>> Corinne
>> On Jan 6, 2014, at 4:33 PM, Lucas Holmquist <lholmqui at redhat.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> On Jan 6, 2014, at 10:21 AM, Summers Pittman <supittma at redhat.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> So in JS land and iOS land we have or will soon have OAuth2 handling.
>>>> To handle OAuth2 a new API was created, AGAuthorizationModule.  I
>>>> understand and agree with the separation of concerns between
>>>> Authentication and Authorization, but I am worried that this introduces
>>>> two APIs now.
>>>> 
>>>> Before Authz was added Authentication (login, logout, etc) and
>>>> Authorization(here are my keys and permissions) were both handled by
>>>> AGAuthenticationModules.  With Authz now being a thing we should
>>>> probably remove and deprecate the authz parts of the old
>>>> AuthenticationModules.
>>>> 
>>>> see iOS
>>>> https://github.com/aerogear/aerogear-ios/blob/master/AeroGear-iOS/AeroGear-iOS/pipeline/AGRESTPipe.m#L307
>>>> 
>>>> see Android
>>>> https://github.com/aerogear/aerogear-android/blob/master/src/org/jboss/aerogear/android/impl/pipeline/RestRunner.java#L319
>>>> 
>>>> see Javascript:  I couldn't actually find this in javascript…
>>> 
>>> We didn't have authz in our auth stuff,  so it made sense to create a separate thing.
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> wdyt?
>>>> 
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