Provide convenient access to getting a Google access token
jroper opened this issue · comments
In a project where you're already using Alpakka to access Google services, you may want to get an access token directly, for accessing Google services in a way that Alpakka doesn't support. For example, you might want to access GKE using a Google OAuth token, and the library you're using might not accept a generic map of headers to authenticate with, but rather requires explicitly passing an access token.
Currently, it's possible to get access to an access token created by Alpakka by invoking the getRequestMetadata method, looking for the Authorization header in the returned map, and stripping Bearer from the value. There could be more convenient ways to get this, but right now Alpakka makes every method that could be used private. I think it would be convenient if Alpakka provided a public means to get a future of its currently cached access token.