Christopher Tubbs created ACCUMULO-1027:
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Summary: Consolidate the thrift objects for Authentication
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Key: ACCUMULO-1027
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-1027
Project: Accumulo
Issue Type: Sub-task
Reporter: Christopher Tubbs
Rather than add a new thrift object for each possible type of authentication
token (I saw 3 created for ACCUMULO-259), we should just make our token
interface extend Writable, and use a single thrift object to carry the user
principal, token type, and binary serialized token, in our RPC calls.
I think the now deprecated "AuthInfo" object was acceptable for this purpose,
though with different fields and behavior than before. However, since that
object was in the public API in 1.4.x, it needs to remain as is, until it is
phased out of the public API. A similar object, (perhaps 'Authentication'),
containing the user principal, token type, and binary serialized token, should
be created for this purpose instead, for the RPC calls.
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