Topics / adapter layer designAttributed viewpoint
Adapter follows server authorization behavior
For authorization, Harvey’s adapter layer follows the behavior a server exposes: it can discover metadata directly when no challenge is sent, accept valid tokens returned with either 200 or 201, and request the scopes the server advertises.
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How We Built Harvey’s Connector Library
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We handle these differences in an adapter layer. For authorization, we follow the behavior a server actually exposes: we can discover metadata directly when it does not send a challenge, accept valid tokens returned with either 200 or 201, and request the scopes it advertises.