I am using the native Facebook SDK (through an opensource tool called 'SimpleFacebook') to authenticate with Facebook. That part is working great. I find the Microsoft Azure implementation of Facebook authentication to be lacking.
Anyway, the next step is to use the token from this Facebook session and authenticate with MS/Azure. There are two methods like look like they should do the job
public void login(java.lang.String provider,
java.lang.String oAuthToken,
UserAuthenticationCallback callback)
Invokes Windows Azure Mobile Service authentication using a provider-specific oAuth token
Parameters:
provider - The provider used for the authentication process
oAuthToken - The oAuth token used for authentication
callback - Callback to invoke when the authentication process finishes
And another very similar method where the second param is a JSON object of type:
com.google.gson.JsonObject oAuthToken,
Is it just me or is the documentation lacking here? I tried just calling the Facebook session's .getAccessToken() and passing that to the functions and I get an error from Azure:
Caused by: com.microsoft.windowsazure.mobileservices.MobileServiceException: {"code":400,"error":"Error: invalid json"}
at com.microsoft.windowsazure.mobileservices.MobileServiceConnection$1.onNext(MobileServiceConnection.java:115)
How do we know what the correct JSON format is?
Am Using the right token?
More information can be found at:
at this Azure site
I think I have this figured out. Essentially all I had to do was create a JSON object (which is fairly new for me). I tried this earlier but I had imported the wrong JSON class (I had imported org.json.JsonObject or something rather than the com.google.gson.JsonObject).
once I did that I had to figure out what the correct json properties should be. Through a lot of Google searches I found out this is the correct format:
JsonObject jo = new JsonObject();
jo.addProperty("access_token", token);
Then use jo.toString() in the call like:
mClient.login(MobileServiceAuthenticationProvider.Facebook, jo.toString(), new UserAuthenticationCallback() {
.....
}
Really not that difficult, but why wouldn't Azure team put this in their docs???
Maybe this is just "obvious" information for a seasoned dev, but it took me a whole evening to figure out.
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I'm using an HTML client, and have the following situation:
Using Embarcadero's RAD Server's built-in method for authentication, I have successfully logged in a user and would like to now pass the session token back and forth in such a fashion that the connection is RESTful. The problem lies in the fact that for some reason, I have no clue as to how to track said session token within RAD Server. Embarcadero themselves have been secretive, telling our company that we can do it with Sencha/ExtJS, but we'd prefer not to have to buy even more software. The overall structure is as follows:
Login POSTs username and password (working) to RAD Server (still working) and receives response complete with session token. At this point, I want to open up another HTML file and maintain that session token AS I show data, such that with every JSON request, I send that session token. But in RAD Studio, as far as I can tell, I cannot manually add JSON data to an already-constructed JSON object to feed to the FDBatchMoveJsonWriter component. Any suggestions/examples anyone has done regarding this, if it is even possible?
I've not yet used RAD Server, but post to many REST services. Might RAD Server support Authentication additions in the header? I connect a THTTPBasicAuthenticator to my TRESTClient and in the OnAuthenticate event add token data.
procedure TCLTSProcessor.RESTAuthenticatorAuthenticate(ARequest: TCustomRESTRequest; var ADone: Boolean);
begin
ARequest.AddAuthParameter('token', userToken, pkHTTPHEADER);
end;
Another method I use is connecting a TOAuth2Authenticator to the REST client and set the TokenType to ttBEARER and set the AccessToken property.
I am total JS newbie working on a project build in Grail 2.4.4, a web-app. It's a working app, build by a developer whom is not available anymore.
To get it to work locally I had to upgrade it to Grails 3.2.0. I got it almost working in Netbeans. But I got stuck at getting the data from the MySQL database.
The Chrome inspector says:
angular.min.js GET http://localhost:8080/<app>/currency/allCurrencies 404 ()
The controllers are written in Restangular which call the above URL.
What am I missing?
Firstly, Restangular is an Angular library which simplifies and standardizes making calls to a REST backend (which in your case is a Grails app). So, Restangular does not directly retrieve data from your a database, it invokes a web service which (in some cases) may retrieve data from a database.
In your case, Restangular is attempting to retrieve data from the endpoint http://localhost:8080/<app>/currency/allCurrencies but you are getting a 404 response, indicating that there is no endpoint mapped to this URL.
HTTP REST helps you connect to the API easily. Restangular can handle that by sending standard methods [Get, Post, Delete, Put] to the api like what you see.
This mean StudentController > Get()
localhost:2045/api/student
This mean StudentController > Get(Guid id)
localhost:2045/api/student/8ae37cfa-905b-4c71-ad03-bf416d93bdf8
This mean StudentController > POST(Guid id) ... if you send Post method to the API, it will detect it, this work also on put method
localhost:2045/api/student
use this module to get easily rest api.
Http-Rest-Service
I have been creating Spring RESTful services for a while and typically I am building my own services so I create domain objects and populate them and the framework takes care of the conversion to JSON.
I have a situation now where I simply need my service to act as a pass through to another system's service that is already RESTful and returns JSON.
URL https://:/service/serviceInfo
Method GET
HTTP Content Type Produces: application/json
I simply want to wrap this call (I will apply some security checks on the service) and pass that JSON returned straight back to my service without mapping it back to Java objects, only to return as JSON to the client. Is there a simple way to do this, with minimal code?
Thanks in advance.
Can you see if this works for you?
#RequestMapping("/child")
public String testMethod(#RequestParam String param) {
return new RestTemplate().exchange("https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json", HttpMethod.GET, null, String.class).getBody();
}
You just replace the url for your own. I can also guide you to using the RestTemplate with POST or DELETE requests etc. if you need. Also adding parameters or headers if you need. I've used it extensively in some projects.
I am new to web services. I need to create a web service that will receive JSON from a source in VB.NET. Could you please help on how to start with this?
Earlier I have called web service and received JSON from it after getting the HTTPResponse. But in this case, source will send the data and my web service need to receive it. Thank you for your help.
After some google I was able to understand the WCF concept. All I did was create a contract with attributes as:
<OperationContract>
<WebInvoke(Method:="POST",
ResponseFormat:=WebMessageFormat.Json,
RequestFormat:=WebMessageFormat.Json,
BodyStyle:=WebMessageBodyStyle.Bare,
UriTemplate:="InputData")>
for my method.
Then I added endpoint and binding as "webHttpBinding".
Created classes to deserialize JSON and I was good to go.
We have an assignment to check the compatibility of Quick connect project for Foursquare against the REST/JSON 1.1.
When I am testing the process, while invoking Rest API for query Check-in, the process is throwing an error – “OAuth token invalid or revoked”. Can you kindly help to fix this issue.
Access_token for this was generated by registering a sample app with Foursuare.com, having www.google.com as welcome page and redirect URL. Please let me know if this is causing the issue.
Also, let me know is there is any standard method to generate the access_token for this.
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Shree.
It sounds like you're not following Foursquare's instructions on connecting properly, or need to reconnect to get a new access_token. Keep in mind that the access_token isn't the code that comes back in the redirect, the code needs to be used to exchange for the access_token.