[aerogear-dev] Auth Authz and OAuth

[Lucas Holmquist]

On Jan 6, 2014, at 10:21 AM, Summers Pittman <supittma at redhat.com> wrote:

> So in JS land and iOS land we have or will soon have OAuth2 handling.  
> To handle OAuth2 a new API was created, AGAuthorizationModule.  I 
> understand and agree with the separation of concerns between 
> Authentication and Authorization, but I am worried that this introduces 
> two APIs now.
> 
> Before Authz was added Authentication (login, logout, etc) and 
> Authorization(here are my keys and permissions) were both handled by 
> AGAuthenticationModules.  With Authz now being a thing we should 
> probably remove and deprecate the authz parts of the old 
> AuthenticationModules.
> 
> see iOS 
> https://github.com/aerogear/aerogear-ios/blob/master/AeroGear-iOS/AeroGear-iOS/pipeline/AGRESTPipe.m#L307
> 
> see Android 
> https://github.com/aerogear/aerogear-android/blob/master/src/org/jboss/aerogear/android/impl/pipeline/RestRunner.java#L319
> 
> see Javascript:  I couldn't actually find this in javascript…

We didn't have authz in our auth stuff,  so it made sense to create a separate thing.  

> 
> wdyt?
> 
> 
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