[Catalyst] Behaviour of Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication

[Jay K]

Sorry all.  Mail client went crazy.

If you try to call authenticate with no valid fields from the user
class - it will throw an exception - as of the next release.

Jay

On Mar 19, 2008, at 2:44 PM, Jay K wrote:

> Upon consideration - I've decided to throw an exception if you try to
> always going to be an error and better to fail loudly than silently
> pass auth, even if it is unlikely that the passwords will match.
> I'll put this in the next release.
>
> You can still accomplish an empty search if you really want to by
> using the searchargs parameter...
>
> Jay
>
>
> On Mar 19, 2008, at 2:08 PM, Jochen Luig wrote:
>
>> Hi Alex,
>>
>>>
>>> It is A Feature. You've messed with parameters, username in
>>> userinfo,
>>> login in credential. my $userinfo = { login => $login, password =>
>>> $password} will cure.
>>
>> Yes, I know. I found this out just as I was beginning to complain on
>> #catalyst. I just wanted to know if I interpreted the behaviour (the
>> primary key part) correctly and if my suggestion to issue a warning
>> in
>> such a case is off-base.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Jochen
>>
>>
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