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@ywangd ywangd commented Oct 24, 2022

This PR removes the deprecated Authentication#getVersion method and replaces its usages by #getEffectiveSubject#getVersion.

Relates: #88494

This PR removes the deprecated Authentication#getVersion method and
replaces its usages by #getEffectiveSubject#getVersion.
@ywangd ywangd added >refactoring :Security/Authentication Logging in, Usernames/passwords, Realms (Native/LDAP/AD/SAML/PKI/etc) v8.6.0 labels Oct 24, 2022
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* Authentication is serialized and travels across the cluster nodes as the sub-requests are handled,
* and can also be cached by long-running jobs that continue to act on behalf of the user, beyond
* the lifetime of the original request.
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Optional: could make sense to add a note along the lines of "Use getEffectiveSubject().getVersion() to retrieve the version of an authentication instance." to the Javadoc.

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It would be helpful to add some more comments in the javadoc for the Authenticaton to explain its current structure and how it should be reasoned about. I'll make it in a separate PR.

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