nextcloud/apps/files_external/appinfo
Robin McCorkell 272a46ebe1 Authentication mechanisms for external storage backends
A backend can now specify generic authentication schemes that it
supports, instead of specifying the parameters for its authentication
method directly. This allows multiple authentication mechanisms to be
implemented for a single scheme, providing altered functionality.

This commit introduces the backend framework for this feature, and so at
this point the UI will be broken as the frontend does not specify the
required information.

Terminology:
 - authentication scheme
    Parameter interface for the authentication method. A backend
    supporting the 'password' scheme accepts two parameters, 'user' and
    'password'.
 - authentication mechanism
    Specific mechanism implementing a scheme. Basic mechanisms may
    forward configuration options directly to the backend, more advanced
    ones may lookup parameters or retrieve them from the session

New dropdown selector for external storage configurations to select the
authentication mechanism to be used.

Authentication mechanisms can have visibilities, just like backends.
The API was extended too to make it easier to add/remove visibilities.
In addition, the concept of 'allowed visibility' has been introduced, so
a backend/auth mechanism can force a maximum visibility level (e.g.
Local storage type) that cannot be overridden by configuration in the
web UI.

An authentication mechanism is a fully instantiated implementation. This
allows an implementation to have dependencies injected into it, e.g. an
\OCP\IDB for database operations.

When a StorageConfig is being prepared for mounting, the authentication
mechanism implementation has manipulateStorage() called,
which inserts the relevant authentication method options into the
storage ready for mounting.
2015-08-19 10:05:11 +01:00
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app.php Introduce BackendService for managing external storage backends 2015-08-19 10:05:11 +01:00
application.php Authentication mechanisms for external storage backends 2015-08-19 10:05:11 +01:00
info.xml Merge pull request #13345 from owncloud/increase-files-external-versions 2015-01-14 13:24:08 +01:00
routes.php Moved core apps to the capabilities manager 2015-08-10 10:45:16 +02:00
version Increase files_externals oC required version and its own version 2015-01-14 12:21:47 +01:00