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[jira] [Created] (VFS-466) UserAuthenticationData is too limited

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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