[aerogear-dev] Auth Authz and OAuth

Summers Pittman supittma at redhat.com
Mon Jan 6 10:39:31 EST 2014


On Mon 06 Jan 2014 10:36:32 AM EST, Corinne Krych wrote:
> Summers,
>
> Do you mean, should we refactor and treat authToken and accessTokens in a similar way for the implementation of OAuth2?

Yes.  That is what I am proposing.

>
> ++
> Corinne
> On Jan 6, 2014, at 4:33 PM, Lucas Holmquist <lholmqui at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> 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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