[aerogear-dev] [android] Removing AGAuthenticationModule

Lucas Holmquist lholmqui at redhat.com
Fri Sep 19 10:21:35 EDT 2014


On Sep 19, 2014, at 10:16 AM, Lukáš Fryč <lukas.fryc at gmail.com> wrote:

> Then we may want to remove it in 2.0 until we have a use case for it. WDYT Luke?
yup,  lets deprecate,  that is, not include it in the build,  or we can just delete it

> 
> On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 3:28 PM, Lucas Holmquist <lholmqui at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> 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 AGAuthenticationModule was originally made to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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