The credential API came first. Authenticators are a generalization that supports more auth systems.
—Jens On Mar 16, 2016, at 2:04 AM, Brendan Duddridge <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I'm just curious what's the difference between using credentials or an authenticator on a CBLReplicator object? The documentation seems to imply they are similar, although the wording is slightly different. For credential: /** The credential (generally username+password) to use to authenticate to the remote database. This can either come from the URL itself (if it's of the form "http://user:[email protected]";) or be stored in the NSURLCredentialStorage, which is a wrapper around the Keychain. */ NSURLCredential *credential = [NSURLCredential credentialWithUser:username password:password persistence:NSURLCredentialPersistenceSynchronizable]; self.currentPull.credential = credential; and for authenticator: /** An object that knows how to authenticate with a remote server. CBLAuthenticator is an opaque protocol; instances can be created by calling the factory methods of the class of the same name. */ id<CBLAuthenticator> authenticator = [CBLAuthenticator basicAuthenticatorWithName: username password: password]; self.currentPull.authenticator = authenticator; Is it better to have both setup like above, or just credential, or just authenticator? To me they both appear to kind of do the same thing, namely provide a username and password to the CBLReplicator so it can authenticate against the remote server. Just curious. Currently I have them both set and it seems to do no harm. Thanks, Brendan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Couchbase Mobile" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mobile-couchbase/0c8a2caf-27af-483c-83cc-86a2c78c63b3%40googlegroups.com<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mobile-couchbase/0c8a2caf-27af-483c-83cc-86a2c78c63b3%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Couchbase Mobile" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mobile-couchbase/2D7AF069-F2F1-4CBD-B725-F901ED7DB946%40couchbase.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
