The **Authentication active?** option is ignored when not using the proxy

[pierre-josselin]

Hi,

I noticed that the Authentication active? option is ignored when not using the proxy.

Yet when Grafana attempts to access the data, it connect directly to the context broker without first requesting an access token, which generates the following error:

It works correctly when using the proxy mode.

This isn't necessarily a problem and seems logical from a security perspective, but perhaps it would be better to make it impossible to configure authentication if direct mode is selected?

[cnoelle]

Yes, it only works in proxy mode, and yes, for direct mode it should not be possible to activate authentication in the config editor.

The plugin uses the built-in Grafana OAuth capability described here: https://grafana.com/developers/plugin-tools/create-a-plugin/extend-a-plugin/add-authentication-for-data-source-plugins#add-an-oauth-20-proxy-route-to-your-plugin. It is not available in direct mode.

[pierre-josselin]

Thank you for the details