Joerg Schaible created VFS-466:
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Summary: UserAuthenticationData is too limited
Key: VFS-466
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VFS-466
Project: Commons VFS
Issue Type: Improvement
Affects Versions: 2.0
Reporter: Joerg Schaible
Assignee: Joerg Schaible
Fix For: 2.1
The UserAuthenticationData should be used as vehicle to transport
authentication data to the individual providers. While it is open for new
authentication data types, it limits the values of the data to be a character
array. Therefore it does not fit for authentication with private keys or
certificates like it is possible with e.g. SFTP or FTPS.
For a proper support of the latter authentication types, we have to support
arbitrary value types in the UserAuthenticationData. To add this functionality
without breaking binary compatibility, we have to make a compromise by adding
new getter/setter methods to the class that will replace the old (now
deprecated ones), because the getter will now return other types than char[].
This patch is used as base for VFS-283 and for support of client certificates
with FTPS (no JIRA issue yet).
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