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This gem contains a generic OAuth2 strategy for OmniAuth. It is meant to serve as a building block strategy for other strategies and not to be used independently (since it has no inherent way to gather uid and user info).
To create an OmniAuth OAuth2 strategy using this gem, you can simply subclass it and add a few extra methods like so:
require 'omniauth-oauth2'
module OmniAuth
module Strategies
class SomeSite < OmniAuth::Strategies::OAuth2
# Give your strategy a name.
option :name, "some_site"
# This is where you pass the options you would pass when
# initializing your consumer from the OAuth gem.
option :client_options, {:site => "https://api.somesite.com"}
# You may specify that your strategy should use PKCE by setting
# the pkce option to true: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7636
option :pkce, true
# These are called after authentication has succeeded. If
# possible, you should try to set the UID without making
# additional calls (if the user id is returned with the token
# or as a URI parameter). This may not be possible with all
# providers.
uid{ raw_info['id'] }
info do
{
:name => raw_info['name'],
:email => raw_info['email']
}
end
extra do
{
'raw_info' => raw_info
}
end
def raw_info
@raw_info ||= access_token.get('/me').parsed
end
end
end
end
That's pretty much it!
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OmniAuth is tested under 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, truffleruby, and JRuby.
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We found that omniauth-oauth2 demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 3 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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