Hooked Up the AuthClient to the Broker’s loginservice
We're getting to the point that we're putting things together at a higher level and starting to look at the larger (near final) ticker plant and it's clients. Friday I started work on taking the authentication client (AuthClient) code and taking the API we created and implementing it to mate up with the Broker's loginservice which is our Gold Standard for authentication.
The exchange with the service is pretty nice, and the work we've done up to this point makes it a lot easier to work with. You basically have to pass it a map with the key/value pairs of the login name and password, and it'll return to you a uuid_t that is the authenticated value. If it's not a uuid_t, then it failed - for whatever reason. I end up logging the failed attempts, and clearing out the AuthToken. It's not really rocket science, but it's very effective.
I've been able to remove all the hard-coded values and "debug" code so it's really working. It's nice to get one more thing really hooked up. It's getting closer, day by day.