Support for authenticating with Personal Access Tokens on Jira Data Center

[evilnerd]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Since the latest LTS version of Jira Data Center, we can now issue Personal Access Tokens and use those to authenticate (instead of clear-text username/passwords) -- which is very convenient for running automated tools that e.g. gather some information from Jira overnight.

Describe the solution you'd like

Support for PAT authentication, via a new AuthTransport (e.g. PATAuthTransport), which sits next to e.g. BasicAuthTransport.

Describe alternatives you've considered

I've tried to use Basic auth, substituing the password with the token, but Jira expects the token in an authentication header. Just works differently.

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[evilnerd]

I have built a solution for this, I just wanted to connect it to a feature request. Please assign it to me.

[andygrunwald]

Sounds good. Assigned. Thanks @evilnerd!

[badnetmask]

I hope this helps getting this feature pushed. I tried the code in #422, and it works fine for me. Thank you.

[evilnerd]

Thanks @badnetmask ! -- I also hope this helps, because I want to release my work project with a version of the lib that supports PATs :)