On Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:35:09 -0600 Eric Evans <eev...@rackspace.com> wrote:
EE> On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 14:27 -0600, Ted Zlatanov wrote: >> On Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:14:53 -0600 Eric Evans <eev...@rackspace.com> wrote: >> EE> Did you maybe mean...? AuthenticationRequest required for the EE> method (has to be), but the map is optional? >> >> Either way will work. With your suggestion and allowing for auth >> backends to modify the authentication request: EE> Let's not do that; as Robin pointed out... EE> "...there's no way to ensure immediate consistency of tokens across all EE> nodes, it's probably not worth the effort of making Cassandra "token EE> aware", since an application would have to provide fall-back logic to EE> authenticate with credentials, if the token fails. So, tokens would EE> probably just add complexity without much benefit." I'd still rather pass something back. As I said, it allows backends to maintain state when it makes sense to do so and can alleviate the problem of redundant auth queries in the future. Ted
