[aerogear-dev] Node.js / Passport.js thoughts (was: Re: OAuth2, OpenID connect and AeroGear)

[Bruno Oliveira]

On 2014-10-30, Lucas Holmquist wrote:
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> > On Oct 30, 2014, at 9:41 AM, Matthias Wessendorf <matzew at apache.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hello team!
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 4:49 AM, Bruno Oliveira <bruno at abstractj.org <mailto:bruno at abstractj.org>> wrote:
> > Note: Not only for Keycloak, but also compatible with other technologies
> > like passport on Node.js.
> >
> > Great point on being compatible with passport.js! To ensure our OAuth2 client SDKs do work against node.js (w/ passport.js), how about we build a Node.js based version of our "Shoot-n-Share backend" ([1]), that is protected by Passport.js?
>
> So to clear up some confusion that might be happening with what passport is, it is not an OAuth2 server thing.
>
> it’s really just middleware(think of it as a servlet filter for you java weenies) for express.js,  and by using adapters(like a FB or google), it can secure RESTful endpoints in that express.js app.
>
> I think the thing that we can do here is make a keycloack adapter for passport, using the OAuth2 protocol( similar to passports FB and google adapters );

You're correct. What I meant in my previous e-mail, was the fact that we
not necessarily need to be tied to some technology, but think about
other technologies as well.
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>
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> >
> > It could be a (simple) a 'clone' of our java version. I think for Luke, our Node.js pro, it would be a fairly simple task :)
> >
> > On the client side, the Android/iOS versions of Shoot-n-Share would simply offer a new upload target for Passport.js, instead of 'just' FB, Google-Drive and Keycloak.
> >
> > That way we will also learn how much Passport.js is actually different, similar to what we learned on how Google/FB are different ;-)
> >
> > Another interesting aspect of this is that, once we are ready to release our OAuth2 SDKs, it would be awesome to actually ship a node.js based demo as well, instead of just a Java-based backend demo. That would clearly show, our client libs are working across different backend technologies.
> >
> > Any thoughts?
> >
> > -Matthias
> >
> >
> > [1] https://github.com/aerogear/aerogear-backend-cookbook/tree/master/Shoot <https://github.com/aerogear/aerogear-backend-cookbook/tree/master/Shoot>
> >
> >
> >
> > In the end, OAuth2 is just a protocol and
> > should support other servers.
> >
> > - Should we provide examples for OpenID connect? Or abstractions?
> >
> > To track this issue, we have the following Jira[3] and another for
> > OpenID connect[4]. Fell free to link to your respective project.
> >
> >
> > [1] -
> > http://transcripts.jboss.org/meeting/irc.freenode.org/aerogear/2014/aerogear.2014-10-08-14.00.html <http://transcripts.jboss.org/meeting/irc.freenode.org/aerogear/2014/aerogear.2014-10-08-14.00.html>
> >
> > [2] - https://gist.github.com/abstractj/04136c6df85cea5f35d1 <https://gist.github.com/abstractj/04136c6df85cea5f35d1>
> >
> > [3] - https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AGSEC-180 <https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AGSEC-180>
> >
> > [4] - https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AGSEC-190 <https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AGSEC-190>
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