[Bug]: REST Connection - token/password management issue

[dave-csc]

Apache Hop version?

2.12.0

Java version?

17.0.2

Operating system

Linux

What happened?

The Authentication header value field in the REST Connection metadata is saved in clear text in the metadata JSON file (usually in ${PROJECT_HOME}/metadata/restconnection).

If you like to use a variable to store the password/token, it also needs to be unencrypted to work (differently for what happens for other metadata types, such as RDBMS Connections).

Issue Priority

Priority: 2

Issue Component

Component: Metadata

[bamaer]

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