Support for Auth Token?

[Pro]

In Influx 2.0 the authentication is done via tokens.

https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/v2.0/write-data/developer-tools/api/#example-api-write-request

Is this somehow already supported in influxdb-cxx?

[offa]

Unfortunately no, only basic auth at the moment. v2.0 isn't supported yet, but It's planed for the future.

[alex-saoulis]

Do you have any solid plans for influxdb-2.x authentication yet? I have added http support for auth tokens in my fork of this repo. It is largely untested but it works for my use-case (simple read operation). The API functionality I've added is to include the token in the input url as follows, which I'm sure can be improved:
[protocol]://[username:password@]host:port[?db=database] --[auth_token]

[offa]

Not yet, sorry.

If you have an implementation already, it feel free to contribute! 😃 Let me know if you need some help.

A more common format would be [protocol]://[auth_token@]host…] I guess. So it becomes user:pw@ for basic credentials, but token@ for tokens.

[alex-saoulis]

I will have a look at implementing this and contributing when I get the time. My only worry with [protocol]://[auth_token@]host…] was I don't know whether ':' is an allowed character in the auth_token, because if it is that would break the url parser. Do you have any idea if it is? 😃 I assume it's unlikely for exactly this issue it would cause.

[offa]

I wouldn't expect : in tokens, I can't remember to see one at any type of service.

[SimonEverts]

@offa maybe this will be helpfull too:
https://github.com/SimonEverts/influxdb-cxx/tree/feature/90-support-api-token

[offa]

Yes, it might be worth to add an additional API that enables programmatic setting of connection infos. Using an URL string becomes limiting at some point.

While I'm not sure how to design the factory API yet (given, there are some different types transport), are you interested to submit the changes to Transport and HTTP (+ tests) as a PR already?

[kasparthommen]

Hi all, any news on this? What about merging the proposed changes?

[offa]

I'm going to implement basic url string based token support (as credentials are now). The linked changes aren't compatible anymore, the http backend has been replaced in the recent releases.

[offa]

PR is open (#214).

I had no opportunity to test it on a real database yet, if someone could give it a try.