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MLH_API_KEY ==> READONLY_API_KEY #144

Open domfarolino opened 6 years ago

domfarolino commented 6 years ago

We can generalize this better.

shaharyar123 commented 5 years ago

@domfarolino can you describe it a little bit?

domfarolino commented 5 years ago

Sure; our main API key gives full access to write and read the hacker data in our DB. MLH required a way to access our database to read our data, but we wanted to give them a read-only key (a key that when our sever would authenticate, would ensure requests with this key couldn’t actually perform writes/deletes). This is because we didn’t want them accidentally writing/messing with our data.

I named the key with read-only abilities “MLH_API_KEY” for them because we didn’t have another consumer of the key, but I think it would be good to make the name more general, in case we have more uses for a read-only key.

isiah-lloyd commented 5 years ago

Also last year we didn't have to give them API access to the database. We just created a CSV file from the database and they were fine with it.

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Sure; our main API key gives full access to write and read the hacker data in our DB. MLH required a way to access our database to read our data, but we wanted to give them a read-only key (a key that when our sever would authenticate, would ensure requests with this key couldn’t actually perform writes/deletes). This is because we didn’t want them accidentally writing/messing with our data.

I named the key with read-only abilities “MLH_API_KEY” for them because we didn’t have another consumer of the key, but I think it would be good to make the name more general, in case we have more uses for a read-only key.

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domfarolino commented 5 years ago

In that case maybe we don’t have a use for this kind of key at all, and can remove it.