[Seaside] Fwd: OAuth/Twitter demo in Squeak

Andreas Raab andreas.raab at gmx.de
Fri Aug 13 04:01:41 UTC 2010


[Oops, accidentally sent to seaside-*dev*; apologies for the noise]

-------- Original Message --------

Hi -

I was playing with OAuth authentication and in the process decided to
test it against Twitter and since it's kind of fun, I thought I'd share
it with the rest of the world. You can run the (very simple) demo here:

	http://ardemo.seasidehosting.st/seaside/twitter

All it does is after you log in via Twitter it shows you the account
info that Twitter shares with the app and allows you to tweet a little.

The OAuth part itself is now integrated in WebClient's suite of auth
methods and the little Twitter demo is available in
http://www.squeaksource.com/ar.html and can be installed via

	(Installer ss project: 'ar')
		install: 'Twitter-Squeak'.

Since I found OAuth to be a pretty major PITA I hope that this example
will prove helpful for people who have to deal with this stuff.

Lastly, a Seaside question that came up in the above: Part of the OAuth
process requires passing a specific callback url to the remote site
(which is the url the user gets redirected to after authentication was
successful). Since I couldn't figure out how to obtain the url
otherwise, I've been stashing it away in a rendering method (since
there's access to the rendering context's callback store) like here:

renderLoginPageOn: html

	"Set up the callback url for Twitter to return to"
	callback := WAActionCallback on: [self twitterCallback].
	url := html actionUrl copy addField: (html callbacks store: callback).

	"We need the host and the scheme here; the scheme is guesswork"
	urlString := 'http://', host, '/', url asString.
	oauthParams at: 'oauth_callback' put: urlString encodeForHTTP.

and then later the callback is passed to Twitter and the user sent back
to the app. This works, but I'm wondering if that's the right thing to
do, and if not, how one would set up and register such a callback url
outside of rendering.

Cheers,
   - Andreas



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