Re: [aerogear-dev] Cordova Ouath2 plugin using Google Play Services

... and the devil is in the details. It seems as though all the current AuzthzModules use an http based approach to requesting an Oauth2 token. I see this being done in OAuth2WebFragmentFetchAutorization#doAuthorization method, where an OAuthWebViewDialog is used to trigger the Oauth2 token request. To use Google Play services to trigger an Oauth2 token request, we won't use an http approach, but rather we start an activity to select an account and request an Oauth2 token. Once the token is retrieved it can then be used with the standard http Oauth2 API. (One caveat: the google play services token response doesn't provide a refresh token. I believe this to be a non-issue as the token request process is trivial when using google play services (no authentication step)). I see to ways to implement this feature: 1) Generalize the OAuth2WebFragmentFetchAutorization into an interface, and have one implementation to handle http-based token requests, and second implementation to handle intent-based token requests. 2) Add a OAuth2AuthorizationConfiguration option to use intents instead of http, and trigger a different workflow within the OAuth2WebFragmentFetchAutorization#doAuthorization method if that config is set. My preference is for 2) because it's a) simpler, and b) it is really only during the #doAuthorization method that we have a different approach. Thoughts? I'll start with implementing approach (2) unless I hear otherwise. Brian On 2015-02-24 07:25 PM, Matthias Wessendorf wrote: On Wednesday, February 25, 2015, Daniel Passos <daniel(a)passos.me&gt; wrote: > No, we are not using Google Play services API for now for OAuth2 in > Android land. > > But feel free create a new AuthzModule[1] for it ;) > +1 > > [1] > https://github.com/aerogear/aerogear-android-authz/blob/master/aerogear-a... > > -- Passos > > > On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 4:01 PM, Sebastien Blanc <scm.blanc(a)gmail.com&gt; > wrote: > >> Cool stuff Brian ! >> The AeroGear OAuth2 Cordova plugin relies on the Native AeroGear OAuth2 >> Libraries, so maybe Summers and/or Daniel could tell more about it. >> Sebi >> >> >> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 7:46 PM, Brian Leathem <bleathem(a)gmail.com&gt; >> wrote: >> >>> Hey gear-heads, >>> >>> I recently wrote a Cordova plugin that retrieves a Oauth2 token on >>> Android using Google Play Services. The advantage of this approach is >>> it leverages the single-sign-on capabilities of android, and the app can >>> retrieve the Oauth2 token without requiring Authentication from the >>> user. I blogged about it here: >>> >>> http://www.bleathem.ca/blog/2015/02/cordova-oauth-google-services.html >>> >>> Using a promise-based API it's fairly trivial to fallback to a >>> traditional Web authentication/authorisation for the Oauth2 token when >>> the google-play-services approach isn't supported. >>> >>> I'm aware the aerogear team has a Oauth2 cordova plugin [1], but it's >>> not clear to me if the google-play-services integration is supported. >>> If the Aerogeam would find it useful, I'd be more than happy to provide >>> a PR to the aerogear cordova plugin providing such integration. >>> >>> Thoughts? >>> Brian >>> >>> [1] >>> >>> http://staging-aerogearsite.rhcloud.com/docs/specs/aerogear-cordova/OAuth... >>> _______________________________________________ >>> aerogear-dev mailing list >>> aerogear-dev(a)lists.jboss.org >>> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/aerogear-dev >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> aerogear-dev mailing list >> aerogear-dev(a)lists.jboss.org >> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/aerogear-dev >> > > -- Sent from Gmail Mobile _______________________________________________ aerogear-dev mailing listaerogear-dev@lists.jboss.orghttps://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/aerogear-dev _______________________________________________ aerogear-dev mailing list aerogear-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/aerogear-dev