[jbosstools-dev] how to disable Eclipse UserValidationDialog?

[André Dietisheim]

On 11/07/2012 04:51 PM, Snjezana Peco wrote:
> https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-12368?focusedCommentId=12715308&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-12715308 
> is also caused by changing the Authenticator.
>

oh, so looks like the mess is propagating :(

As I see it the default implementation in org.eclipse.ui should get 
raised to a level where different plugins can contribute solutions to 
their needs. The shortcomings of the NetAuthenticator in org.eclipse.ui 
was filed in 2007 and is still not resolved: 
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=196780
The 2 follow-up bugzillas 
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=312228 and 
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=299020 are also not 
resolved yet, IBM says that they dont have enough resources.
On top of this one should then convince the different plugins that 
currently override the NetAuthenticator to drop their Override and use 
the enhanced mechanism.
Not the easiest task at hand, but without that I think we'll keep having 
unpredictable results.
Alternatively we could of course also stop using UrlConnection and 
switch to Apache HttpClient. We would then of course have to watch and 
read the Eclipse proxy preferences.

WDYT?

> Snjeza
>
> On 11/7/2012 4:40 PM, André Dietisheim wrote:
>> Hi Snjezana
>>
>> good point!
>> I already found out about this when looking at different Eclipse 
>> plugins. EGit does it, Scout and apparently ECF, too. Quite a mess to 
>> be honest: A bad API in the jdk UrlConnection, a poor implementation 
>> in org.eclipse.ui and here we are: plenty of plugins overriding the 
>> Authenticator with unpredictable results.
>>
>> Cheers
>> André
>>
>> On 11/07/2012 04:21 PM, Snjezana Peco wrote:
>>> I think you can disable it by setting your own authenticator.
>>> You can check how ECF sets its authenticator using the 
>>> org.eclipse.ecf.provider.filetransfer.retrieve.UrlConnectionRetrieveFileTransfer.UrlConnectionAuthenticator 
>>> class and the Authenticator.setDefault method.
>>>
>>> Snjeza
>>>
>>> On 11/6/2012 3:12 PM, André Dietisheim wrote:
>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>> In OpenShift tooling I have a dialog that allows you to create/edit 
>>>> connections to OpenShift. Behind the scenes I'm using 
>>>> HttpUrlConnection to talk to the OpenShift REST service. If I 
>>>> provide invalid user-credentials Eclipse pops up a dialog for the 
>>>> user to provide username and password on top of my dialog.
>>>>
>>>> https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-12999
>>>>
>>>> It turns out that Eclipse is registering it's very own 
>>>> Authenticator in HttpUrlConnection which is invoking the Eclipse 
>>>> credentials dialog if the Http response is 401.
>>>> Does anybody know how to disable this in Eclipse? I'm pretty stuck, 
>>>> I'd appreciate any input.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>> André
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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