Hi, Steven Githens and everyone, The topic might seem scary but hopefully you will think differently after reading their use cases.
This question was brought up at creating the new GPII data model<https://wiki.gpii.net/w/Keys,_KeyTokens,_and_Preferences> based on requirements from “keys and key tokens” document<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UoJzaEVFXEVA_CBfA5WNUHn9Y3j4JSy3tHvqeg19N1k/edit>. What shows so far is OAuth2 authorization code and client credential grants are not being used by any real use cases, which means we could potentially remove their support from the universal repo to simplify the new data model. I’m sending this email to the team to find out if this understanding is correct, or if there are possibilities that they are still needed in the near future. 1. Use case where OAuth2 authorization code grant is needed: One use case in the near future this grant could be used is the deployment of PMT. The question is, which method will be used to deploy PMT: (1) Will it be deployed as one single centralized GPII hosted website that runs behind GPII firewall, has direct access to GPII Cloud database, just as a part of GPII Cloud? (2) Or, will it be deployed and managed outside of the GPII org. It will then access cloud data via APIs provided by GPII Cloud. Or even multiple PMT sites could exist to access one single GPII Cloud? (1) doesn’t need the use of OAuth2 authorization code grant and (2) might. I looked into Steven Githens’ dev PMT work<https://github.com/sgithens/gpii-devpmt/tree/GPII-2452>, at the moment it’s reading/writing preferences from json files on the file system. I’m not sure if its deployment has been thought about. Please chime in if anyone has ideas. 2. Use case where OAuth2 client credential grant is needed: The only use case is First Discovery Tool, which is not really in use as far as I know. Please let me know if anyone has a real case of First Discovery Tool running. Once GPII Cloud stops supporting OAuth2 client credential grant, the front end of First Discovery Tool will continue to function except at the last step it won’t be able to create new preferences sets on GPII Cloud. Steven Githens again, I remember you did some work to demo First Discovery Tool on your machine. Do you need OAuth2 client credential grant continue to be supported? Look forward to your input. Thanks. Cindy
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