Open mattmassicotte opened 1 year ago
I think adding a plugin system for auth is interesting direction. we would obviously need to expose a new API that allows the client to inject the alternative auth provider. would you like to to propose such?
cc @yim-lee @rnro
I did make a little progress. I was using the example here:
https://github.com/datastax/cpp-driver/blob/master/examples/auth/auth.c
However, I was working on this as a side-project, and have been distracted. I like the idea of an API to make this easier, but I don't think I have enough time or context to make a good suggestion.
Hello again!
I'm attempting to use this client with AWS Keyspaces. This service has two mechanisms for authentication. Right now, I'm able to use the user/pass versions, and it's working! I'm amazed!
However, the "real" way to do auth with Keyspaces is via AWS SigV4 authentication. Doing this requires building a plugin that uses the lower level auth systems of the C++ driver. These are not currently exposed. I haven't built a system that does this yet, so I'm kind of winging it based on what I see in the Go plugin.
Any thoughts on how to wrap up the driver's API?