[ARROW-10671] [FlightRPC] Bearer Token refresh design with retry mechanism

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: FlightRPC, Java
• Labels: design pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/26624
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Keerat Singh
• Created: 21/Nov/20 00:01
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 08:14

Description

• The generated bearer token by implementations of CallHeaderAuthenticator such as BearerTokenAuthenticator are bound to expire.
• The expired access token needs to be refreshed.
• The FlightClient needs to retry the API call on encountering FlightStatusCode.TOKEN_EXPIRED and refresh the expired token.

Refer to this design document for more details.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #8780