Re: [aerogear-dev] Removing Auth dependency from Pipeline

On 02/11/2013 10:15 AM, Kris Borchers wrote: From a design perspective I don't really understand how inverting the relationship between Pipes and Auth works. Authorization/Authentication tokens are part of the request. Pipes create/manage requests ergo they need to know about what auth is available. Authentication doesn't care what requests use it, it is just data. Furthermore, looking down the road when we have OAuth, having Authenticators be a propery on Pipes allows the Pipe to refresh tokens as part of a read/save/etc request transparently to the user. But a wider dependency on Pipes from Auth. Now when an auth is created it adds new behaviour to every instance of a pipe passed to it. This exact behaviour can't be done in Java, so Pipe in Java will still have the dependency on Auth. I'm not seeing how this requires Auth to be moved. Don't thank me yet ;)