Description David Green 2012-01-16 16:25:47 EST

I've taken a look at using the new org.eclipse.mylyn.commons.repositories.http.core APIs, and the following came up:

* it would be nice to have an easy way to instanticate an IOperationMonitor from an IProgressMonitor using public API.  Currently there appears to be no API implementation of IOperationMonitor, though the internal OperationMonitor looks like it would do the job.  The IOperationMonitor API is complex enough that commons should provide a default implementation.
* it would be nice to have an easy way to implement preemptive auth using CommonHttpClient.  I realize that preemptive HTTP auth is not great practice, however some repositories only support HTTP auth preemptively (the server doesn't ever issue a challenge).  Currently the only way to enable preemptive auth is to write something as follows:

bc.. CommonHttpClient httpClient = new CommonHttpClient(location);
		URL url = new URL(location.getUrl());
		String hostname = url.getHost();
		int port = url.getPort();
		if (port == -1) {
			port = url.getDefaultPort();
		}
		
		HttpHost targetHost = new HttpHost(hostname, port, url.getProtocol());

		UserCredentials credentials = location.getCredentials(AuthenticationType.HTTP);
		if (credentials != null) {
			HttpUtil.configureAuthentication(httpClient.getHttpClient(), location);

			// Create AuthCache instance
			BasicAuthCache authCache = new BasicAuthCache();
			// Generate BASIC scheme object and add it to the local auth cache
			AuthScheme basicAuth = new BasicScheme();
			authCache.put(targetHost, basicAuth);

			httpClient.getContext().setAttribute(ClientContext.AUTH_CACHE, authCache);
		}