Authentication is being handled by Env Vars and triggered through the configure function.

[jawache]

In the spec for a model plugin we added a function called authenticate but so far in the only plugin that's implementing authentication it's

• Happening through the use of env vars for security reasons (you would never provide user/pass in a yaml file)
• Any setup/authentication is happening through the configure function.

So the proposal here is to remove the authenticate function from the spec for the Model Plugins.

[gnanakeethan]

@jawache I am reviewing this on the potential usage with the Watt-Time API and it seems pretty essential. The ideal scenario of having credentials via Environment variables is good though.

[jmcook1186]

Closing as outdated