Plans to harmonize authentication?

[jean-philippe-martin]

@Horneth reports:

The class used for authentication in the google.cloud library (com.google.cloud.AuthCredentials) is different from the one in google.api.client (com.google.api.client.auth.oauth2.Credential). We need to maintain 2 different sets of authentication classes for the same authentication mode. I was wondering if there are any plans to harmonize those in the future.

Do we have some guidance we can share, or plans to harmonize across these projects?

[mziccard]

We are in the process of dropping our AuthCredentials classes in favor of classes in google-auth-library-java (we are adding there all the functionality that we need from AuthCredentials).

We will not be using the com.google.api.client.auth.oauth2.Credential class. I suggest you look at classes in google-auth-library-java which support a wide range of authentications. Have a look at HttpCredentialsAdapter which extends HttpRequestInitializer and allows you to authenticate API client requests.

[mziccard]

With #1375 we dropped our AuthCredentials classes and moved to using google-auth-library-java for authentication (this library also works with the REST client), this will be available in the next release.