Client authentication configuration by task ------------------------------------------- Key: ELY-160 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ELY-160 Project: WildFly Elytron Issue Type: Task Components: API / SPI Reporter: David Lloyd Assignee: David Lloyd The authentication client needs support for multiple tasks, such as: * {{connection}} - the authentication configuration applies to the connection itself * {{request}} - the authentication configuration applies to activities interacting with services provided by the named peer * {{*}} - the authentication configuration applies to all matching tasks In this way, one can specify a separate configuration for initial connections versus normal requests on that connection. Furthermore, a new authentication configuration type should then be added which allows a task configuration to be inherited to another task. For example: * {{useConfiguration("<referenced-task>"}} - could specify that my current authentication configuration for the matched task should use the configuration assigned to the referenced task, for example "connection", which would in turn mean that the connection credentials should be used (whatever they may be) for the given task/match criteria. This allows a simple default configuration which allows connection credentials to be used whenever they are available.