[Question] Why isn't ServiceAccount._generate_assertion public?

[theacodes]

Seems like generating a JWT with a service account might become more important in the future. Can we have a first-class method for generating them?

[theacodes]

@dhermes (friendly, low-priority) ping.

[dhermes]

It's fine with me, though you can probably achieve what you want without exposing _generate_assertion.

I was able to make a scopeless prototype using the already public oauth2client.crypt.make_signed_jwt.

[theacodes]

Oh yeah, it's possible, it's just not pretty. I'm writing a sample for a new product that uses JWTs to authenticate and I'd prefer to do it in one line rather than several. :)

(I'm lazy).

[dhermes]

Are you volunteering to implement #252?

[theacodes]

I'm being pre-empted by a high-priority task until the end of the month, so let's see. I'll close this since we have an open issue for it.

[dhermes]

I wasn't suggesting you close it, but if the issue is that you want it for scopeless credentials, then yes we do have an issue for it already.