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Bernd Eckenfels updated VFS-466:
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> UserAuthenticationData is too limited
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> Key: VFS-466
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VFS-466
> Project: Commons VFS
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Affects Versions: 2.0
> Reporter: Joerg Schaible
> Assignee: Joerg Schaible
> Labels: patch
> Attachments: UserAuthenticationData.patch
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> The UserAuthenticationData should be used as vehicle to transport
> authentication data to the individual providers. While it is open for new
> authentication data types, it limits the values of the data to be a character
> array. Therefore it does not fit for authentication with private keys or
> certificates like it is possible with e.g. SFTP or FTPS.
> For a proper support of the latter authentication types, we have to support
> arbitrary value types in the UserAuthenticationData. To add this
> functionality without breaking binary compatibility, we have to make a
> compromise by adding new getter/setter methods to the class that will
> replace the old (now deprecated ones), because the getter will now return
> other types than char[].
> This patch is used as base for VFS-283 and for support of client certificates
> with FTPS (no JIRA issue yet).
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