1) Remove the GetToken trait. The trait seemed to be organically
designed. It appeared to be mostly tailored for simplifying the
implementation since there was no way for users to provide their own
implementation to Authenticator. It sadly seemed to get in the way of
implementations more than it helped. An enum representing the known
implementations is a more straightforward way to accomplish the goal and
also has the benefit of not requiring Boxing when returning features
(which admittedly is a minor concern for this use case).
2) Reduce the number of type parameters by using trait object for
delegates. This simplifies the code considerably and the performance
impact of virtual dispatch for the delegate calls is a non-factor.
3) With the above two simplifications it became easier to unify the
public interface for building an authenticator. See the examples for how
InstalledFlow, DeviceFlow, and ServiceAccount authenticators are now created.
The current code uses standard blocking i/o operations (std::fs::*) this
is problematic as it would block the entire futures executor waiting for
i/o.
This change is a major refactoring to make the token storage mechansim
async i/o friendly. The first major decision was to abandon the GetToken
trait. The trait is only implemented internally and there was no
mechanism for users to provide their own, but async fn's are not
currently supported in trait impls so keeping the trait would have
required Boxing futures. This probably would have been fine, but seemed
unnecessary. Instead of a trait the storage mechanism is just an enum
with a choice between Memory and Disk storage.
The DiskStorage works primarily as it did before, rewriting the entire
contents of the file on every set() invocation. The only difference is
that we now defer the actual writing to a separate task so that it does
not block the return of the Token to the user. If disk i/o is too slow
to keep up with the rate of incoming writes it will push back and
will eventually block the return of tokens, this is to prevent a buildup
of in-flight requests. One major drawback to this approach is that any
errors that happen on write are simply logged and no delegate function
is invoked on error because the delegate no longer has the ability to
say to sleep, retry, etc.
In favor of making it the default and removing the option to specify a
port to listen on. If needed a variant can be added to specify a port
explicitly, but most users should want an ephemeral port chosen so
making it the default makes sense while other breaking changes are in
flight.
Along with the public facing change the implementation has been modified
to no longer clone the scopes instead using the pointer to the scopes
the user provided. This greatly reduces the number of allocations on
each token() call.
Note that this also changes the hashing method used for token storage in
an incompatible way with the previous implementation. The previous
implementation pre-sorted the vector and hashed the contents to make the
result independent of the ordering of the scopes. Instead we now combine
the hash values of each scope together with XOR, thus producing a hash
value that does not depend on order without needing to allocate another
vector and sort.
Beyond simply moving to the builder pattern for intialization this has a
few other effects.
The DeviceFlow and InstalledFlow can no longer be used without an
associated Authenticator. This is becaus they no longer have any
publicly accessible constructor. All initialization goes through the
Authenticator. This also means that the flows are always initialized
with a clone of the hyper client used by the Authenticator.
The authenticator uses the builder pattern which allows omitting
optional fields. This means that if users simply want a default hyper
client, they don't need to create one explicitly. One will be created
automatically. If users want to specify a hyper client (maybe to allow
sharing a single client between different libraries) they can still do so
by using the hyper_client method on the builder. Additionally for both
AuthenticatorDelegate's and FlowDelegate's if the user does not specify
an override the default ones will be used.
The builders are now exposed publicly with the names of Authenicator,
InstalledFlow, and DeviceFlow. The structs that actually implement those
behaviors are now hidden and only expose the GetToken trait. This means
some methods that were previously publicly accessible are no longer
available, but the methods appeared to be implementation details that
probably shouldn't have been exposed anyway.
Specifying a port of zero has the server listen on an ephemeral port.
Many users may not be aware of that unless they have a background in
networking where that's common practice. I'm also not able to think of
any use cases where listening on a hardcoded port would be beneficial,
so with this change I've opted to remove the ability entirely rather
than simply documenting that almost everybody should specify zero.
