[aerogear-dev] Auth Authz and OAuth

[Lucas Holmquist]

On Jan 6, 2014, at 10:35 AM, Summers Pittman <supittma at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Mon 06 Jan 2014 10:33:13 AM EST, Lucas Holmquist 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.
> 
> How was JavaScript handling tokens in Auth then?

the browser
> 
>> 
>>> 
>>> wdyt?
>>> 
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