Christopher Tubbs created ACCUMULO-1129:
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Summary: Make it easier for users to construct and use a security
token
Key: ACCUMULO-1129
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-1129
Project: Accumulo
Issue Type: Sub-task
Reporter: Christopher Tubbs
Assignee: Christopher Tubbs
Fix For: 1.5.0
In comments on ACCUMULO-1041, we discussed options for simplifying the API for
"logging in" or, more appropriately, getting tokens to create a Connector with.
The main idea is:
# add "Connector getConnector(String p, Props)" AND "SecurityToken
getSecurityToken(Props)" to Instance
# would be nice to have a way to automatically get possible prop keys
The idea of properties here is to provide an interface for passing any set of
credentials to an authentication system to either get a connector directly
(with the token being constructed internally), or to get a (potentially)
re-usable token. This is especially important for components like the proxy,
for which we'd rather not implement every possible security token type, nor do
we want to require every possible authentication service be written to support
every language that the proxy supports.
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