[ARROW-9804] [FlightRPC] Authentication Redesign

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.0.0
• Component/s: FlightRPC, Java
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/25848
• Assignee: James Duong
• Reporter: James Duong
• Created: 19/Aug/20 19:29
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 08:09
• Resolved: 02/Nov/20 14:34

Description

Redesign the authentication process to:

• Decouple authentication from the handshake
• Provide better integration with standard HTTP authentication mechanisms.
• Simplify the handshake process:
  • Make this single-stage rather than potentially multi-stage.
  • Remove auth payloads.

Please see this document and PR

Issue Links

• Dependency: ARROW-9805 [FlightRPC] Handshake Extension
• is depended upon by: ARROW-10452 [FlightRPC] Deprecate old authentication mechanism
• relates to: ARROW-7579 [FlightRPC] Make Handshake optional
• relates to: ARROW-10486 [FlightRPC][C++][Python] Header-based authentication
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #7994