Authentication for Clients?

[bbertka]

Will there be any ability to authenticate as a client into a PCF marketplace gemfire service?

[metatype]

Are you asking if the python client connecting via REST to a GemFire cluster running in PCF supports authentication?

[kdunn-pivotal]

This is quite straightforward to add, since the underlying request library is requests.

In file python2.7/site-packages/gemfire/GemfireClient.py:

class GemfireClient:
    '''
    Allows application to store and access data stored in GemFire over REST. Please see:
    http://gemfire.docs.pivotal.io/latest/userguide/index.html#gemfire_rest/setup_config.html
    for instructions on setting up GemFire's REST service.
    '''

    def __init__(self, hostname, port, user, password, debug_mode=False):
        '''Initializes the Client with the given hostname and port'''
        self.hostname = hostname
        self.port = port
        self.user = user
        self.password = password

and in the same file:

    def connection(self):
        ''' Checks connection to the server '''
        data = requests.get(self.base_url, auth=(self.user, self.password))