[aerogear-dev] Auth Authz and OAuth

[Summers Pittman]

On Mon 06 Jan 2014 10:53:48 AM EST, Lucas Holmquist wrote:
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> On Jan 6, 2014, at 10:35 AM, Summers Pittman <supittma at redhat.com> wrote:
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>> On Mon 06 Jan 2014 10:33:13 AM EST, Lucas Holmquist wrote:
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>>> On Jan 6, 2014, at 10:21 AM, Summers Pittman <supittma at redhat.com> wrote:
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>>>> 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.
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>>>> 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.
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>>>> see iOS
>>>> https://github.com/aerogear/aerogear-ios/blob/master/AeroGear-iOS/AeroGear-iOS/pipeline/AGRESTPipe.m#L307
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>>>> see Android
>>>> https://github.com/aerogear/aerogear-android/blob/master/src/org/jboss/aerogear/android/impl/pipeline/RestRunner.java#L319
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>>>> see Javascript:  I couldn't actually find this in javascript…
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>>> We didn't have authz in our auth stuff,  so it made sense to create a separate thing.
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>> How was JavaScript handling tokens in Auth then?
> also when me and Kris were discussing the benefits of an OAuth2 adapter, we came to the conclusion that it should not really used by itself, although it could, but instead integrate it into pipeline

That is how the auth stuff works on iOS and Android

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>>>> wdyt?
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