[OFBIZ-12033] Separate login service for API calls

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: ALL COMPONENTS
• Assignee: Michael Brohl
• Reporter: Girish Vasmatkar
• Created: 30/Sep/20 06:23
• Updated: 07/Feb/23 10:59

Description

We're using userLogin service to authenticate users before generating auth tokens for REST API and GraphQL calls. However, we figured that a session is also getting created and returned in response which is defeating the purpose of having an API in place. Even though that session is not getting used anywhere when subsequent calls are made using the token, we still think it is an extra session lying around in tomcat's session cache. 
 
Proposal is to implement a new basic userLogin service (basicAuthUserLogin) that would just do username/password matching and be done with it without ever calling request.getSession(). This will ensure that APIs are stateless and no session is generated.

Issue Links

• is related to: OFBIZ-10047 Tomcat SSO