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fix: Allow browser authentication to Snowflake from the Deploy pane #1290

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3 changes: 2 additions & 1 deletion NEWS.md
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Snowflake.

* Push-button publishing from desktop RStudio is now compatible with Connect
servers hosted on Snowflake.
servers hosted on Snowflake. This includes support for browser-based
authentication during deployment. (#1289)

* Added support for using identity federation to authenticate against Connect
when running in Posit Workbench, when available. This allows deploying to
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7 changes: 7 additions & 0 deletions R/client-connect.R
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Expand Up @@ -165,6 +165,13 @@ getSnowflakeAuthToken <- function(url, snowflakeConnectionName) {
parsedURL <- parseHttpUrl(url)
ingressURL <- parsedURL$host

# Detect when we're running in the Deploy pane of RStudio and enable
# "interactive" temporarily so that external browser authentication is
# permitted.
if (rstudioapi::isBackgroundJob()) {
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There is a mix of calls to base::interactive() and rlang::is_interactive(). Should they all shift to rlang::is_interactive()? Alternatively, should we have our own internal is_interactive() implementation which consults rstudioapi::isBackgroundJob()?

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I feel like this targeted fix is what I'm after for now. Changing how we think about interactive() everywhere might have other side effects.

rlang::local_options(rlang_interactive = TRUE)
}

token <- snowflakeauth::snowflake_credentials(
snowflakeauth::snowflake_connection(snowflakeConnectionName),
spcs_endpoint = ingressURL
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