[aerogear-dev] [android] Removing AGAuthenticationModule

[Lucas Holmquist]

On Sep 19, 2014, at 9:22 AM, Summers Pittman <supittma at redhat.com> wrote:

> 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.

right,  we, JS, only have 1 adapter, REST,  so it might be that we just remove it totally

> 
> 
> 
>> 
>> ~ 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 AGAuthenticationModule was originally made to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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