Posted by Rob Loach on September 18, 2008 at 5:45pm
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| Project: | Web Services |
| Version: | 6.x-1.0 |
| Component: | Code |
| Category: | support request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | brmassa |
| Status: | closed (fixed) |
Issue Summary
Why arn't you using http://drupal.org/project/oauth ?
Comments
#1
Rob,
thanks for asking. There are a few reasons:
1* OAuth module is not working yet
2* Services module doesnt have a plugin for authentication. Web Services has, but OAuth module is not integrated to it.
3* OAuth module is quite a mess (code and UI), mainly due the Sumit's lack of experience and the beta stage
4* OAuth module has some features that are not proved/tested, like Cool Auth
5* WS uses OAuth as the main authentication method and OAuth has not much use without a services module
ALL these motives can be easily removed soon and i will be glad to merge codes. However, 'till this day, i really need this working.
regards,
massa
#2
Thanks! I was just wondering because I'll be developing a project with oauth soon and was looking for existing solutions.
#3
What if you abstracted your OAuth solution and patched the OAuth module with your OAuth solution's awesomeness so that other contrib modules could benefit from its awesomeness?
#4
Rob,
Im already a OAuth module dev. I asked Boris once. Since Sumit is working on it as GSoC project, i dont think its right to overwrite it. If Sumit and Boris agree, i might commit several changes on that module. No problem! And being a more generic module than simple web services authentication, i also might do some extra features.
Also, Im really afraid to be expelled again, like Services dev team did.
regards,
massa
temp
Automatically closed -- issue fixed for two weeks with no activity.
#5
Automatically closed -- issue fixed for two weeks with no activity.
#6
For the record ...
Rob is Services dev team, and you weren't expelled, you left after a disagreement and created this fork.
Scott
#7
For the record ...
Rob is Services dev team, and you weren't expelled, you left after a disagreement and created this fork.
Scott