BearerTokenAuthenticator is not extendable

[laurentschoelens]

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

BearerTokenAuthenticator is marked as final and could not be extended to provide extra informations / headers in Stripe request

Describe the solution you'd like

Make BearerTokenAuthenticator extendable by removing the final keyword or close only methods that are not extendable

Describe alternatives you've considered

No response

Additional context

No response

[jar-stripe]

Hi @laurentschoelens , thanks for submitting the feature request! Can you give me some more information about what kinds of additional information or headers you would like to add to the Stripe request?

[laurentschoelens]

It's technical informations for internal gateway like internal authentication informations

[jar-stripe]

Thanks for the response! Is that information added to the Authorization header? Or additional headers?

[laurentschoelens]

Custom header to not conflict w/ Authentication header which contains Bearer informations

[laurentschoelens]

Currently if we want to achieve that, we need to declare custom class which does both adds headers and code which use instanceof on class won't work as expected

[jar-stripe]

Gotcha, thank you! Last question for now, do you need to set these headers on every request? or on just a few requests?

[laurentschoelens]

Since it's authentication information for internal gateway, it's on every request that these headers should be sent

[mbroshi-stripe]

Are you able to create your own Authenticator that delegates to the BearerTokenAuthenticator and then use setAuthenticator on a per-request basis?

[laurentschoelens]

No I dont want to use a per-request based code since I have to do that for every request.

It's a one-time config I need

[mbroshi-stripe]

OK, thanks for the clarification! Do I understand correctly then that you're instead using StripeClientBuilder#setAuthenticator at a client-level? That should work. As you point out, it will break the StripeClient#getApiKey method, but that isn't used anywhere in our SDK.