feat: use RATTLER_AUTH_FILE and use proper reqwest clients in search

[wolfv]

@pavelzw do you think you could try this branch?

I tested a bit and I could not see what would go wrong with your config file though.

[pavelzw]

Just tested it out, it works with this version 🥳 Thanks @wolfv!
Closes #990
Closes #989

[wolfv]

I am wondering if we should make this something supported in rattler itself. In that case, we could also make it so that

export RATTLER_AUTH_FILE=test.json
pixi auth login prefix.dev --token bla

would write to the RATTLER_AUTH_FILE.

But we can also do that in a follow up PR.

[pavelzw]

It works for pixi search, pixi add and pixi install.

For pixi global install i get the same error message:

[wolfv]

I think my last commit fixes authentication for global install. We should also take a look to make sure that the default channels are used (by default) for the global install command.

[pavelzw]

We should also take a look to make sure that the default channels are used

ideally also for pixi search (if you're not in a pixi project where the channels should be used from pixi.toml)

[ruben-arts]

Two questions

[ruben-arts]

Should this file location also be part of the global config?

[wolfv]

I made it so! :)

[ruben-arts]

Could you document it aswell

[ruben-arts]

Except for my documentation and better error request it does work! If that is added we can merge.

[william-alhant]

I think this change is not fully functionnal. I am setting the environment variable but it does not work from what I can see.
The new option does not seem to be taken into account by shell-hook.
Additionally, it seems build_reqwest_clients is called with the config before with_cli_config, so the auth_file option is ineffective.

[wolfv]

@william-alhant can you check on main again? We just merged another PR that re-shuffled a few things again and should make things work smoother.

[william-alhant]

I just checked again on main (93f838b). The issue is still there.

[wolfv]

@william-alhant if you have the time, maybe you could give #1019 a try

[william-alhant]

@wolfv Thank you, I gave #1019 a try, and with this change RATTLER_AUTH_FILE is indeed effective :)

[wolfv]

great!