[aerogear-dev] [android] Removing AGAuthenticationModule

[Summers Pittman]

On Friday, September 19, 2014 7:12:01 AM, Lukáš Fryč wrote:
> Right now Auth module does not seem to serve any purpose anymore,
>
> but as we have discussed on JS meeting,
>
> there may possibility to integrate with third-party endpoints such as
> Keycloak, Auth0, Mozilla Personas, etc.
>
>
> As I can foresee it, Auth module may serve a purpose of single point
> holding authentication data such as tokens,
> that can be used  for setting up authentication of either third-party
> frameworks we use (e.g. in demos, such as in AngularJS this can be
> used to register itself to HTTP request interceptor),
>
> or it may handle authentication for our modules, e.g. Data Sync.
>
> I'm not saying we shouldn't remove it at this point, but my question
> is rather what do we recommend instead?
I'm not saying we remove the auth module system.  I'm just proposing we 
remove that one implementation because it doesn't do anything.



>
> ~ Lukas
>
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 6:07 PM, Christos Vasilakis
> <cvasilak at gmail.com <mailto:cvasilak at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     +1 don’t think it makes sense to keep it,  for iOS it was used
>     only for the Controller case since basic/digest was already
>     handled by the platform
>
>     -
>     Christos
>
>     On Sep 16, 2014, at 6:44 PM, Summers Pittman <supittma at redhat.com
>     <mailto:supittma at redhat.com>> wrote:
>
>     > AGAuthenticationModule was originally made to
>     login/logout/register with
>     > the AeroGear controller.  Since controller is dead in a ditch
>     somewhere,
>     > for AGDroid 2.0 I'm proposing we remove it from the platform.
>     This will
>     > leave HttpBasicAuthenticationModule and
>     HttpDigestAuthenticationModule.
>     > However I know this also exists for iOS and Javascript so I'm
>     putting
>     > this post up for discussion.
>     >
>     > wdyt?
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