On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 15:27 -0600, Ted Zlatanov wrote: > EE> Let's not do that; as Robin pointed out... > > EE> "...there's no way to ensure immediate consistency of tokens > across all > EE> nodes, it's probably not worth the effort of making Cassandra > "token > EE> aware", since an application would have to provide fall-back logic > to > EE> authenticate with credentials, if the token fails. So, tokens > would > EE> probably just add complexity without much benefit." > > I'd still rather pass something back. As I said, it allows backends > to > maintain state when it makes sense to do so and can alleviate the > problem of redundant auth queries in the future.
If not for SSO via shared-state between nodes, then for what? Can you give a tangible example of "when it makes sense to do so"? Are you sure this isn't YAGNI? -- Eric Evans [email protected]
