[aerogear-dev] Question on our AuthenticationModule

Hi, perhaps this is more "AeroGear-Security VS HTTP Basic/Digest", but first some background informations: our different "AuthenticationModule" implementations, for Android, iOS and JavaScript, were created for the AeroGear-Security REST-APIs, which are described here: http://aerogear.org/docs/specs/aerogear-rest-api/ Here are the three different client platform implementations: * Android: https://github.com/aerogear/aerogear-android/blob/master/src/org/jboss/ae... * iOS: https://github.com/aerogear/aerogear-ios/blob/master/AeroGear-iOS/AeroGea... * JavaScript: https://github.com/aerogear/aerogear-js/blob/master/src/authentication/ad... So, basically the interface(or the different implementations) covers the following functionality, described in the above spec: * enroll * login * logout So far so good. However, looking at the recent work for BASIC/DIGEST (e.g. http://aerogear-dev.1069024.n5.nabble.com/aerogear-dev-iOS-Basic-Digest-T...), I think it might be confusing that there is no real login call against the server, like in the above codee, for AG-Security Instead, the "login", is _only_ applying the credentials to that subsequent requests can read (a) protected URL(s). Similar to "logout": Only a _reset_ of the credentials is happening. No server endpoint is invoked. See also http://lists.jboss.org/pipermail/aerogear-dev/2013-May/002810.html Similar to the "enroll"; The iOS proposal throws an exception, similar to the Android version: https://github.com/aerogear/aerogear-android/blob/master/src/org/jboss/ae... https://github.com/cvasilak/aerogear-ios/blob/basic.digest.auth/AeroGear-... To me, looks like none of the methods of the "AuthenticationModule interface" are properly used, or am I wrong? I think my question is: Does it really make sense to kinda try to add the BASIC/DIGEST support into the "AuthenticationModule interface"?? or, could there be something else ? Not sure, I guess since I am not sure, I am asking here :) Any feedback is appreciated! Thanks! Matthias -- Matthias Wessendorf blog: http://matthiaswessendorf.wordpress.com/ sessions: http://www.slideshare.net/mwessendorf twitter: http://twitter.com/mwessendorf